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Microsoft MVP for Azure and Security 2026-2027: Another Exciting Year Ahead!
I am incredibly honored and humbled to announce that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for Azure and Security for 2026-2027. A massive thank you to the community, my friends, and my family!
VPN, SSE, GSA, and Other Myths: Our MC2MC Connect Session on Navigating the New Networking Jungle
The modern enterprise network is changing faster than most organizations can keep up with. Traditional perimeters are dissolving, users are everywhere, applications live in multiple clouds, and security teams are expected to deliver seamless access w
Ignite 2025 Highlights: AI, Agents & Community Connections
I´m was back from an impressive Microsoft Ignite 2025 and after two days of working I take some time to reflect was are the important thinks to consider from this Ignite. No wonder, AI was very pressed - from Keynote to Breakout Sessions and Labs it
Speaking at NIC Conf Rebell Edition 2025
I´m happy to share that I´ve been invited to speak at the Nordic Infrastructure Conference in Oslo(<https://www.nicconf.com/2025/home>). The NIC is one os the largest conferences in the Nordics and I´m really happy to be invited to speak at this grea
Get Ready: Cloud Identity Summit 2025 is Calling Dortmund!
The time has come again! The Cloud Identity Summit(<https://www.identitysummit.cloud/>) is entering its next round. On September 4, 2025, we will meet in Dortmund for the sixth time to exchange ideas about the latest developments in Identity Security
Speaking at Infinity 365 in Salzburg about Entra ID and Conditional Access Security
The Infinity 365 conference was born as a Sharepoint conferencen and growths over the years to a big Microsoft 365 conference in Austria. I´m really happy to be invited to this great Microsoft 365 conference and get the opportunity to held two sessio
Speaking at ExpertsLive Netherlands 2025 about Defender for Cloud Security and GSA
The Experts Lives Netherlands is just around the corner, two weeks and the event will kick-off in the NBC Congrescentrum in Nieuwegein. The Event is every year growing and this year the conference location will possible reach the maximum capacity aro
Speaking at European AI and Cloud Summit about Securing the Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Server Management
The European AI and Cloud Summit is one of the largest conferences about Microsoft technologies in Europe. The conference taking place in the Trade fair Duesseldorf and brings together three different conferences, the European AI and Cloud Summit, th
Speaking at Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn about Top 10 Azure Security Best Practices
I'm thrilled to share that I've been invited to the Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn Conference (CTTT)(<https://cloudtechtallinn.com/>) in the heart of Tallinn, Estonia! Founded in 2023, CTTT has quickly become one of the most renowned conferences,
Speaking at Azure APE XXL about Azure Governance Best Practices and Enterprise Scale together with Thomas Naunheim
Yesterday Thomas and I was really honored to be invited to the Azure APE XXL(<https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/azure-platform-engineering/events/301992137/?eventorigin=group_events_list>) event in Appeldorn, Netherlands.
MS Ignite 2024 Recap
On my way home from a very inspiring Microsoft Ignite, which I was able to attend in person for the first time. Microsoft Ignite 2024 took place in Chicago at McCormick Place, a very large convention center near Lake Michigan.
Speaking at NICConf 2024 in Oslo about Microsoft Defender for CSPM and Hybrid Cloud with WS2025, Azure Arc and WAC
I´m thrilled to announce that I have been invited to the Nordic Infrastructure Conference in Oslo(<https://www.nicconf.com/2024/home>), the NICconf, for the second time.
Microsoft enforces MFA requirements for user login to Azure portal for all tenants
Password spray attacks on accounts have increased rapidly in recent months. As a result, the security risks for accounts that do not use MFA for authentication have increased significantly. Microsoft works in the past on different ways to enable MFA
Awarded as Defender for Cloud Champion and as Community Advocate 2024
The Microsoft Security Community programm continues to grow and there are many exiting new features and additional previews coming to live. I´m working on some of the new previews to gain insights and provide feedback and there are really great new o
Enable granular pricing for Defender for Servers P1 or P2 on specific resources within your subscription via API/Powershell
Microsoft model for a scalable Cloud Adtoption is based on the Enterprise Scale Architecture and I think this is a scalable and useful modell for every customer that uses Azure ressources. It´s based on the definition to granulary devide the workload
Microsoft Defender for CSPM is GA - Information about activation, billing and new pricing information
Microsoft announced with Defender for Cloud Security Posture Management a new plan in the Defender for Cloud product family which focuses on a central view on the security posture of the customer.
Speaking at Experts Live Netherlands 2023 about Mastering Defender for Servers
I´m really happy to announce that I will speak at the Experts Live Netherlands(<https://expertslive.nl/>) 2023 Spring edition. The last one was the 10th annivesary edition in Fall last year. The Experts Live Netherlands is one of the biggest Experts
Azure Firewall Basic SKU is now GA
Microsoft announces with the Azure Firewall Standard and Premium two native Firewall Services available as PaaS solution what are a great benefit to classic Firewall deployments, because of native Autoscaling Features, no need for VM Management and m
How I successfully passed the MS Defender for Cloud Ninja training and how the security community helped me
One of my goal this year was to work more and more with the Microsoft security solutions and got deeper into the different services and possibilities. My focus on this is to get a better understanding how we can secure our Hybrid Cloud environment wi
Speaking at Cloud Brew 2022 about Azure Arc
After many hybrid events in the last few years I really like to get back to in-person or hybrid events to see the community live at the events and discuss and learn from each other about different projects and meet some new people.
My favorite Microsoft Ignite 2022 Fall Highlights
After the pandemic beguns Microsoft switched the both big conference Microsoft Build and Microsoft Ignite to virtual only events. The Ignite was two times a year in 2020 and 2021. For 2022 it was long time not clear will it go back to an in-person ev
Azure Firewall Basic is available as Public preview
Microsoft announces with the Azure Firewall Standard and Premium two new Firewall Services available as PaaS solution what are a great benefit to classic Firewall deployments, because of native Autoscaling Features, no need for VM Management and more
Microsoft will disable Legacy Authentication 1st of October 2022 - What this means and what you have to do
Many of my customers move to the cloud in the last recent years. This means for existing environments a start of a journey away from on-prem system going forward to cloud environments. We all know a journey starts with preperation and needs different
Speaking at Experts Live Netherlands 2022
The full event month of September is slowly coming to an end and what better way to end it than with a great Azure conference? I´m really happy to announce that I will speak at the Experts Live Netherlands(<https://expertslive.nl/>). The Experts Live
Cloud Identity Summit 2022 Recap
After 8 Months of planning the Cloud Identity Summit 2022(<https://www.identitysummit.cloud/>) is over and I can say it was really a pleasure to help to organize this great Community event from my perspective. Four years ago Thomas Naunheim come up w
How I passed the Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect exam SC-100 and why I am now a Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert
Three months ago on 7th of April Microsoft announce a new exam for security architects and introduce again the existing exams SC-200(<https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/learn/certifications/exams/sc-200?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003249>), SC-300(<https://docs.m
Speaking at Scottish Summit 2021 about Azure Policy and Azure Security Center
I am pleased to have received an invitation to speak at the upcoming Scottish Summit 2021(<https://scottishsummit.com/>). The Scottish Summit (<https://scottishsummit.com/>)was estabhlished in 2020. This year the conference is becoming an online-only
Azure VM Best Practices
Last year Gregor Suttie(<https://twitter.com/gregor_suttie>) and Richard Hooper(<https://twitter.com/Pixel_Robots>) launched the Azure Advent Calendar(<https://azureadventcalendar.com/>) and I got to support with a session on Azure Bastion(<https://r
Speaking with Thomas Naunheim at GermanyClouds Meetup about Azure Governance Best Practices
In the past Thomas Naunheim and I do a lot of architecture and designing prinicple for integrating Azure in company environments. We have the idea to create a Azure Governance Best Practices session in the last couple of months to give the community
Azure Bastion now supports VNET Peering
Update 2 on 01/12/2021
IdentitySummit 2020 is over - Thank you
Our 1st IdentitySummit is over and we had a amazing Summit with our powerfull Speakers and our attendees.
Howto setup and monitor Break Glass Accounts in your Tenant
09/07/2024 - Update 2
Connect and Secure Azure PaaS services to Virtual Networks with Private Link
Azure allows to use IaaS and PaaS solution together over the same network. But all Azure PaaS services using a public interface for connection. When configure the PaaS firewall to allow traffic only from internal VNETs the public interface still exis
How I pass the Azure Security Exam Az-500
In the past I have taken several Azure exams, and yesterday I took the Azure Security exam Az-500. I am really glad that I passed the exam. In this article I will give you a brief overview of the topics I saw in the exam and what materials I used to
Azure Saturday Cologne 2019 - Azure Bastion Slides
Gestern fand der erste Azure Saturday in Köln statt. Organisiert wurde dieser von Jennifer, Raphael und Martin und es war ein gelungener Auftakt. Eine tolle Orga und eine absolut hervoragende Location bei der Gothar sorgten für einen gelungene Verans
Setup Passwordless login Für Azure & Microsoft365 mit yubico 5 und FIDO2
Vor einigen Wochen hat Yubico zahlreiche Passwordless-Kits kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt. Um weitere Menschen von den zahlreichen Vorteilen des Passwordless Logins mit dem integrierten FIDO (F ast ID entity O nline) Standard, in Yubico Devices, zu
Cloud SIEM Azure Sentinel nun Allgemein Verfügbar
SIEM (S ecurity I nformation and E vent M anagement) Systeme sind in den meisten Unternehmen bereits für Security Zwecke im Einsatz. Eine rein Cloudbasierte Variante hat Microsoft vor ca. 6 Monaten als Public Preview unter den Namen Azure Sentinel vo
Azure Bastion - Sicherer Azure VM Zugriff via SSH/RDP ohne Public IP
Update 2 on 01/12/2021
Azure Firewall in Public Preview - Einrichtung und Konfiguration #AzureFirewall
Bisher gab es in Azure verschiedene Möglichkeiten Netzwerke und Anwendungen abzusichern, zum Leistungsumfang gehörte allerdings keine Firewall. Dafür waren bisher 3rd Party Lösungen aus dem Azure Marketplace notwendig. Seit kurzem ist mit der Azure F