Address Space maintenance with VNet Peering

19th of October, 2018 / / No Comments

I recently had a scenario where I wanted to add an address space to a Virtual Network and encountered an issue where it was not possible to modify the address space while VNet Peering was in use. This is likely due to the fact that the routes to the peered VNet that are applied through the peering only get updated at the time the peer is created and cannot be dynamically updated.

The following error detailed this.… [Keep reading] “Address Space maintenance with VNet Peering”

Azure Application Gateway WAF tuning

5th of September, 2018 / / 3 Comments

The Azure Application Gateway has a Web Application Firewall (WAF) capability that can be enabled on the gateway. The WAF will use the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set 3.0 by default and there is an option to use CRS 2.2.9.
CRS 3.0 offers reduced occurrences of false positives over 2.2.9 by default. However, there may still be times when you need to tune your WAF rule sets to avoid false positives in your site.

Blocked access to the site

The Azure WAF filters all incoming requests to the servers in the backend of the Application Gateway.… [Keep reading] “Azure Application Gateway WAF tuning”

Azure Application Security Groups

21st of November, 2017 / / 3 Comments

Azure Application Security Groups (ASG) are a new feature, currently in Preview, that allows for configuring network security using an application-centric approach within Network Security Groups (NSG). This approach allows for the grouping of Virtual Machines logicaly, irrespective of their IP address or subnet assignment within a VNet.

They work by assigning the network interfaces of virtual machines, as members of the ASG. ASGs are then used within NSGs as either a source or destination of a rule, and this provides additional options and flexibility for controlling network flows of resources within a subnet.… [Keep reading] “Azure Application Security Groups”