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    • Entra ID - tokens and cookies - a different perspective.

      By Lukasz Kozubal

      Posted on April 2, 2025

      No, I am not going to bore you to tears with another article on how refresh tokens, access tokens and session cookies work and how their implementation in Microsoft Entra ID looks like. In this article, I would rather like to consider specific sub-types of refresh tokens and session cookies... [Read More]
      Tags:
      • Microsoft Entra ID
      • Identity Management
      • Security Operations
    • Workload Identity Federation - great feature with some risks!

      By Lukasz Kozubal

      Posted on January 11, 2025

      The goal of this article is to present and explain implicit risks related to workload identity federation feature available in Entra ID and Azure infrastructure. The upsides of using it are well known and advertised. What’s more difficult to find, is the summary of main risks attached to the use... [Read More]
      Tags:
      • Microsoft Entra ID
      • Azure Infrastructure
      • Access Control
      • Identity Management
      • Governance
      • Security
    • Entra ID - smart lockout - protect your users from malicious account lockouts!

      By Lukasz Kozubal

      Posted on November 24, 2024

      I recently had several conversations related to smart lockout feature in Entra ID. Based on those, it occurred to me that inner workings of this feature are not as widely known as I assumed. [Read More]
      Tags:
      • Microsoft Entra ID
      • Access Control
      • Identity Management
      • Governance
      • Security
    • Azure Infrastructure - RBAC model - new roles with control plane permissions

      By Lukasz Kozubal

      Posted on October 13, 2024

      Some interesting changes happened recently (within last year 😉) in the area of highly privileged (i.e. control plane or Tier 0 in legacy terms) Azure infrastructure RBAC model roles. Up until now, the classic trio of control plane privileged roles with direct control over Azure infrastructure was limited to: [Read More]
      Tags:
      • Azure Infrastructure
      • Access Control
      • Least Privilege
      • Identity Management
      • Governance
      • Security
    • Azure Infrastructure - Log Analytics - calculate daily ingested per Azure subscription

      By Lukasz Kozubal

      Posted on August 29, 2024

      If you need to get information about the size of billable data ingested per Log Analytics table with an indication of Azure subscription responsible for generation of that data, use the following KQL query: [Read More]
      Tags:
      • Azure Infrastructure
      • Operational Excellence
      • Cost Efficency
      • FinOps
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