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Azure Sentinel for Supply Chain Detection
Sentinel has everything it needs to detect supply chain attacks in Azure — but only if the analytics rules are tuned to what those attacks actually look like.
Dec 15, 20248 min read
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Sentinel has everything it needs to detect supply chain attacks in Azure — but only if the analytics rules are tuned to what those attacks actually look like.
Supply chain observability in Azure is not missing telemetry — it is missing the right queries. A walk through the Azure Monitor data sources that actually answer the hard questions.
App Service deployments are easy, which is the problem. A look at the deployment paths, credential surfaces, and hardening steps that matter for production workloads.
Bicep and ARM templates produce the same deployments, but their security properties diverge — in module provenance, what-if analysis, registry trust, and review experience.
What Azure Container Registry actually guarantees about the images you pull — signing, attestation, content trust, and where the trust chain breaks in practice.
Azure Policy is the enforcement layer most Azure platforms underuse. A concrete, policy-by-policy guide to wiring it into supply chain controls that actually stick.
Rotation is the Key Vault feature most teams nominally have and few actually operate. A walk through the patterns that work for secrets, keys, and certificates at scale.
Azure Functions hide a surprising amount of supply chain risk — Oryx builds, run-from-package, extension bundles, and the way deployment slots interact with identity.
Managed identities are the credential primitive that fixes most supply chain risk in Azure — but only if you use them the way the service actually intends.
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