Recently Azure announced this service called ‘Azure Lighthouse’. It allows managed service providers and customers to manage the tenant access and the delegation from a single point of interface in the Azure Portal itself. With some marketing garnish, I would like to call it as Cloud Native Managed Service Model. Let me take you through the fundamentals of Azure Lighthouse.
Category: Cloud Security
Deep Dive into Azure Managed Identities – Behind the scenes
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Democratizing Enterprise Cloud in Azure
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Build your SaaS right with Azure
Cloud has the proven promise of great opportunities for organizations & ISVs. Modern cloud platforms have low entry barriers and huge array service offerings beyond traditional enterprise application requirements. Cloud and the services provide intact environment to SaaS application providers with cutting edge innovation, agility and computational and storage scale for the global reach.
Passwords are like underwear – Keep them hidden using Azure MSI
We keep the credentials and other secrets of the application in the source files. These secrets are visible to developers and being pushed to the source control. In order to avoid this, we can keep the secrets in centralized key management systems – but the credentials of the centralized key management system should be kept in the source files, resulting that at least one credential being placed in the source files.
Let’s see how to overcome this using Azure Managed Service Identity
Understanding GDPR and personal data
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Azure B2C with custom attributes with predetermined values
Azure B2C is a large membership database which also provides the features of tokens, sessions and membership/authentication experience (sign-up, sign-in, … More
Controlling access to your Azure resources using RBAC
Being part of a software services company, customers often ask the question how to restrict access to Azure resources. It … More