Microsoft Azure The danger of using config.AddAzureKeyVault() in .NET Core .NET Core provides a great way to define where your configuration is located. However, the provider for Azure Key Vault is a bit tricky and you should be cautious about potentially wrong credentials due to stale caches.
Azure Event Grid Announcing Arcus Arcus provides a set of open-source components that make it easier to build applications that run on Microsoft Azure
Community MVP Summit, Techdays Finland, NDC Minnesota, Techorama & Intelligent Cloud Conference Lately, my blog has been pretty quiet and thats for a reason - I've been pretty busy with travelling, coding and preparing talks.
Security Azure Key Vault made simple with Azure AD Managed Service Identity (MSI) TL;DR - Azure Key Vault is hard but that's because you need to understand & implement the authentication with Azure AD. That's why Azure AD Managed Service Identity (MSI) now makes this a lot easier for you. There is no reason anymore not
Security Security & Data Announcements at Ignite 2017 A few weeks ago, Microsoft held another edition of its Ignite conference in Orlando, FL. After going through most of the announcements and digesting them I found that there were a couple of interesting ones in the security & data space. Let's have a
Security Using Azure Functions? Don't use Read-Only Resource Locks, for now. It's a good practice to secure your Azure resources. One of the approaches to achieve this is by using Resource Locks. These allow you to add Read-Only or Delete locks on your resources to prevent somebody from changing or removing it. Unfortunately, I've noticed
Microsoft Azure Making Secrets, Certificates and Keys Easier with Sentinel for Azure Key Vault One of my favorite services in Azure is Key Vault, of which I have written about a while back. Since then they even added support for creating, managing and monitoring your Azure Key Vault in the Azure Portal which made it a lot easier!
IoT TechDays NL 2016 - Building your scalable & secure Internet-of-Things on Microsoft Azure A couple of weeks ago I did a talk about designing & building an Internet-of-Things solution on Azure that aims at scalability & security at TechDays NL. Unfortunately there is
