Defender for Cloud

Using Azure Arc only for Defender for Servers or Azure monitoring Agent? Lock it down!

Intro While reviewing Defender for Servers and AMA agent implementations across various customers, I noticed that not all of them are following best security practices for Azure Arc deployments. In this blog, I want to …

April 14, 2025 · 6 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Cloud

How to work around the Azure Security Agent extension not deploying by default on the latest VM windows images, a currently know limitation…

Intro This blog will be about an issue I bumped into when deploying one of the enhanced protection features in defender for cloud. The enhanced feature, adaptive application control, requires the deployment of the Azure …

May 4, 2023 · 4 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Cloud

Tutorial: Change the workspace destination of your already provisioned Data Collection Rule used by the Azure Monitoring Agent

Intro This post is inspired on different setups I saw while working with my clients. More and more clients are leveraging the Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA) and Data Collection Rules (DCR) to collect log data. I’ve noticed …

March 27, 2023 · 4 min · Thomas Verheyden