TL; DR: This article and accompanying source codes helps you setting up an automated secret or certificate rotations for Azure service principals and Azure DevOps service connections. Jump into the technical part here. Background If you are deploying applications on Azure from Azure DevOps service connections (or GitHub actions) you are most likely using a… Continue reading Secure your pipelines by frequently rotating secrets
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How to use ADFS/SAML2.0 as Identity provider with Azure AD B2C
Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) provides support for the SAML 2.0 identity provider. With this capability, you can create a technical profile in Azure AD B2C to federate with SAML-based identity provider, such as ADFS. Thus, allow users to sign in with their existing enterprise identities. Microsoft has good docs on this topic,… Continue reading How to use ADFS/SAML2.0 as Identity provider with Azure AD B2C
Restricting Unverified Kubernetes Content with Docker Content Trust
Docker Content Trust (DCT) provides the ability to use digital signatures for data sent to and received from remote Docker registries. These signatures allow client-side or runtime verification of the integrity and publisher of specific image tags. Image source: Docker Content Trust Through DCT, image publishers can sign their images and image consumers can ensure… Continue reading Restricting Unverified Kubernetes Content with Docker Content Trust
Secure Azure Web sites with Web Application Gateway wtih end-to-end SSL connections
The Problem In order to met higher compliance demands and often as security best practices, we want to put an Azure web site behind an Web Application Firewall (aka WAF). The WAF provides known malicious security attack vectors mitigation's defined in OWASP top 10 security vulnerabilities. Azure Application Gateway is a layer 7 load balancer that provides WAF out of the box. However,… Continue reading Secure Azure Web sites with Web Application Gateway wtih end-to-end SSL connections