Security – Sven Aelterman

End-to-End Configuring a RHEL 8 Common Event Format Forwarder for Sentinel

Update 2021-01-13 9:15 AM CST: Added additional resources at the end of the article Update 2021-03-23 2:31 PM CDT: Added additional firewall configuration for port 514 and additional SELinux configuration. Update 2021-10-24 3:11 PM CDT: I have a GitHub repo with Azure Bicep templates to build a single or multiple syslog forwarders in high availability … Continue reading End-to-End Configuring a RHEL 8 Common Event Format Forwarder for Sentinel

Azure, Security

Defaulting Azure Virtual Network Peering from Allowing to Denying Traffic

I thought about making the title of this blog post "Creating a uni-directional Azure Virtual Network Peering," but it would have been a bit too click-baity. Still, conceptually, what I am describing in this post is along those lines. Virtual Network Peering and the VirtualNetwork Service Tag When two Virtual Networks (VNets) are peered, the … Continue reading Defaulting Azure Virtual Network Peering from Allowing to Denying Traffic

Security

Check your Windows OS for Spectre and Meltdown vulnerability with PowerShell

Microsoft has released a PowerShell module to check your device and operating system for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. This PowerShell module is easy to install from an elevated PowerShell window: You may need to approve the installation of the NuGet provider if you haven't previously installed modules from NuGet. You will likely also get … Continue reading Check your Windows OS for Spectre and Meltdown vulnerability with PowerShell

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