Category Enterprise Security

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Challenge: Separate subscriptions for multiple disciplines under the same Azure Active Directory Tenancy.

Required : Each subscription to have the same role assignments

Solution : Azure Blueprints to define a repeatable set of Azure resources

How ?

Azure Blueprints provides

• Role & Policy Assignments
• ARM templates
• And Resource Groups

Reference guides

• Tutorial: Create an environment from a blueprint sample
• Quick start: Define and assign a blueprint in the portal
• PowerShell – Create Blueprint
• ARM – Create Blueprint

Getting Started Azure Blueprints (PREVIEW)

Creating Blueprint Guide – Focused on Roles

Create a blue print, if your new, start with a sample predefined Blueprint.

For this example I have selected Resource Groups with RBAC (Role-based Access Control)

Create blueprint> Enter Name, Description and Definition Location

Next : Artifacts

Click Save Draft

How to Publish Blueprint

Click Blueprints > Blueprint Definitions > Select the version to publish

Click Publish blueprint.

Enter version and change notes > Click Publish

Sample screen shots of Azure Advisor

Recommendations : Cost , Security, High Availability, Performance, Operational Excellence

Example Recommendations report export, output as a PDF or CSV

This feature looks to identify activity and assign a risk level. “Risk detection and remediation”

All features look to be available in Azure AD Premium P2 and restricted number of features in Azure Premium P1 and Basic/Free.

Key differences are the notifications options only in Azure AD Premium P2.

There are three default polices

1. User Risk
2. Sign-In Risk
3. MFA Registration

Example of the Identity Protection Policies

Reference How To Guides :

1. How To: Configure the Azure Multi-Factor Authentication registration policy
2. How To: Configure and enable risk policies
3. How To : Identity protection configure notifications

A Virtual machine must be running.

If a virtual machine is stopped your deployment will fail

Note a Charge

Steps to Install Extension for Microsoft Antimalware

Select Virtual Machine > Extensions > New Resource > Microsoft Antimalware > Install Extension

• Set date and Scan time is set in minutes from midnight 60 = 1am, 120 = 2am etc

Deployment in progress

Installed and Configuration completed

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Creating Security Baselines In Microsoft Azure

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How to prepare to collect security log data from your Azure Windows virtual machines. You require two things:

1. Log Analystics Workspace to be created
2. The agent to be installed on the Virtual machine.

This guide shows how to setup the workspace and install the agents on the virtual machine.

Create a Log Analytics Workspace

Pricing is Pay as you go

Next you connect to the data source

Click Virtual Machines > Select Virtual Machine and click Connect.

The Agent is then automatically installed and ready to configure for the log analytics workspace

Next Configure workspace under advanced settings. See MS Doc Quick Start Guide

Windows event log collect from Windows VM

• Click Data > Windows Event Logs.
• Add an event log. Example type System and then select “+”.
• In the table, check the options Error and Warning.
• Select Save at the top of the page to save the configuration.

This example shows how to assign a user/group a role to admin virtual machines in a resource group.

How to steps..

Select “Resource Group” > IAM > Add > Select user or group and select a role – Ok

Locking prevents the accidental deletion or modifying of critical resources. Example Azure Subscription, Resource Group, Network, Files, VMs.

How to configure Management locks to prevent the accidental deletion of core networks?

In this example we will put a “Delete” lock on a virtual network.

Virtual Network > Select the network > Locks > Add > Name + Set lock type to delete > Ok

Configured

To remove a lock / delete the lock

Something I regularly do, is review security against attacks and remediate if required.

This example is a simple SQL injection attack.

There is a few things in addition to code which can either prevent, log or alert this activity. Some examples listed below

• Restrict special characters in usernames ( this wouldn’t pass the “*” )
• Software Firewalls should block SQL injection ( This blocks the Select statements )
• ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) monitoring access to the SQL database will alert also. (This can either log or block the traffic)

Example: Web Site – SQL injection in the username of a web portal

Username: “Select * From table 1”

Password : Blank

Result

Access Denied. Potential loophole is blocked.

Reason

One of the many firewall rules in place blocks SQL injection and the platform restricts special characters being used as usernames.