Last month I had a webinar about “Azure security and consideration, where one of my slides I mentioned about Azure Sentinel solution which I wanted to cover more in depth here in this blogpost.  Now the basic thing you need to understand is that Sentinel is a module/solution which runs on top of Log Analytics. Log Analytics as a standalone component is used by a lot of other services in Azure as well, just to give an example. Log Analytics can be used in combination  with  Azure Monitor, Network Watcher, Azure Automation, Application Insight, Diagnostics Logs, Application logs and so on. Overview of service usage and pricing Microsoft always recommends that you have a few workspaces as possible, why? Well let us say that we have Log Analytics installed on a virtual machine where we want to collect security events from. (At the same time we also want to collect performance me07ics for monitoring purposes. For Windows multihoming is possible, but you cannot...

Microsoft extended the hybrid cloud solutions in Azure and announced Azure Arc, which is designed to extend Azure Management to any infras07ucture. In the new world where organizations run servers, containers, and applications across multi-cloud environments, on-premises locations, and the edge, managing these hybrid resources becomes challenging. Azure Arc enables cloud-native Azure management across any infras07ucture and also allows you to run Azure data services to be deployed anywhere. It includes hybrid server management, Kubernetes and Azure data services. Azure Arc Overview As you can see Azure Arc consists of a set of different technologies and components like: Organize and govern all your servers – Azure Arc extends Azure management to physical and virtual servers anywhere. Govern and manage servers from a single scalable management pane.  Manage Kubernetes apps at scale – Deploy and configure Kubernetes applications consistently across all your environment...