Securing Born in the Cloud Businesses

Everyone’s had this recently. Organisations they partner with are becoming (justifiably) more stringent about their security. It creates some thorny problems though: Born in the Cloud When we’re talking about a Born in the Cloud Business (BITC) we’re talking about this sort of company: Larger organisations like working with businesses like these. They’re small, agile […]

AWS obtain PROTECTED level certification for Australian Region

Earlier this week Amazon Web Services made a statement, indicating that the battle of tier-one public cloud providers is still heating up. Yesterday Matthew Graham (AWS Head of Security Assurance for Australia and New Zealand) announced that The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) had awarded PROTECTED certification to AWS for 42 of their cloud services.  […]

Backup Palo Alto VM Series Config with Azure Automation

If you have implemented a VM-Series firewall in Azure, AWS or on-premises but don’t have a Panorama Server for your configuration backups. Here is a solutions for getting the firewall configuration into an Azure Blob Storage, this could be done similarly with Lambda and S3 using python and the boto3 library. Why Do This? If […]

Azure MFA with Palo Alto Client VPN

Client VPNs have come along way in recent years and are still a necessity for organisations protecting their backend services that cannot be published to the public internet securely. The nirvana is having data presented by web applications and use SAML authentication to any good identity provider that supports MFA. This world still doesn’t exists […]