I quite enjoyed my recent foray into setting up an example Azure Firewall, so he's a sequel! 🙃
As before, the post will be screenshot heavy but not all screenshots, the plan is to deploy a vulnerable web application behind the WAF in blocking mode so we can see basic ...
It's been a while since I've done a Technical How-to, recently I wanted to get my head around Azure's firewall appliance, here's an example setup and in true MicroSoft style it comes complete with Point-n-Click screenshots! I'm assuming you at least know how to navigate ...
Back in the day - Windows 2000 era - we would block TCP/53 on the firewall, at the time this was because DNS queries were on UDP/53 and TCP at the time was used for Zone Transfer.
A zone transfer, is where you ask a DNS server to give you ...
Whilst tweaking my website at the beginning of the year I was surprised how easy it is to support Light Mode or Dark Mode themes. The implementation below isn't a user toggle Javascript thing, browsers now have a "media preference", that is if your iPhone, Mac or Windows 10 ...
Something a little different for my site; this post is a soft-skill article. In job listing, or development plans its really common for Technical roles to include a soft skills component and I had kinda assumed it was filler content, how hard is it to talk to people?! A couple ...
2019 has taught me a new appreciation for stale websites; over the last year or two having/making time available to publish content has gotten tricky for me, so now when going about my usual Internet day, when I come across a site that hasn't been updated in a ...
I'm finding the Qualys Cloud Platform an invaluable vulnerability management tool, a mass of near real-time data that shows the security posture/risk of the estate. The reporting systems is "ok" (not stunning) but what is lacklustre is automated-reporting-feature, basically you can schedule things to run, but the data ...
Python's multi-platform availability is awesome, I develop on Mac and execute on Windows or Linux. What isn't awesome is dependency management, every time I touch a machine I go through a loop...
As part of my ISE work I generally make changes to WLCs, I'm not really a Wi-Fi Guy so don't ask me about channel width but I do a lot with authentication and in ISE's case that usually includes an ACL or two on the WLC!
There ...
