Mar 31State of the Multi-Cloud Global Infrastructure (March 2023)The cloud computing market is experiencing strong growth and the top four cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud) are leading the way. According to reported earnings from last year (FY 2022), these top providers control almost 80% of the market! …2 min read2 min read
Published inAWS Security User Group West Africa·Feb 22Examining the Growth and Progress of the AWS Community in West Africa and Africa — February 2023Our team is passionate about providing a valuable and engaging experience for the AWS security community in West Africa. …3 min read3 min read
Published inAWS Security User Group West Africa·Feb 15AWS Cloud Security User Group West Africa: Study and Win a Prize Sessions ReportIntroduction: The AWS Cloud Security User Group West Africa held 12 study sessions over a two-month period led and supported by 7 speakers and moderators from the community. The purpose of the study sessions was to help participants prepare for the AWS Security Specialty exam. This report provides a summary…Aws User Group3 min readAws User Group3 min read
Jan 6Deploying GitHub as a Service in Azure (GitHub AE)GitHub is a platform that allows developers to collaborate on projects, share code, automate integration and deployments. There are different versions of GitHub that it can be confusing to understand which one is the best for you. …3 min read3 min read
Dec 28, 2022State of Azure IAM 2022Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a critical component of any Azure security design. It is responsible for controlling access to resources and services within the Azure platform. …5 min read5 min read
Published inAzure Nigeria Community Group·Nov 10, 2022No more excuse for over-permissive PATs in Azure DevOps!Microsoft recently made another security improvement for Azure / Azure DevOps users! Previously some Azure DevOps APIs were not associated with a PAT scope. Calling those APIs programmatically required “excessive” full scoped PATs :( With the recent improvement, security teams have no reason not to restrict full scoped PAT creation. So if you’re yet to, start putting processes in place to restrict who can create PATs and also deny the creation of full scoped PATs (Organization Settings → Azure Active Directory)1 min read1 min read
Published inAzure Nigeria Community Group·Oct 28, 2022Azure user access to resource access matrixIn securing user identity access to critical Azure resources, one of the useful things to understand are the many ways that a user identity can gain that access. Below are some of the paths. Let me know if there’s a path that I’ve missed. User can be granted permissions to…2 min read2 min read
Published inAWS Security User Group West Africa·Oct 17, 2022AWS Security Summit is happening in Lagos!🚨 AWS Security Summit Nigeria — 19th November in Lagos! 🚨 ➡️Date: 19th November at 10 am prompt ➡️Register: https://www.meetup.com/aws-cloud-security-user-group-west-africa/events/288208422/ ➡️Venue: Chemline House Training and Event Centre. 7 Obasa Road, off Oba Akran Avenue, behind AP Filling Station Ikeja. ➡️Highlights: 1. Five information-packed sessions and panel discussions delivered by experts!1 min read1 min read
Published inAzure Nigeria Community Group·Sep 29, 2022Earn a FREE Azure Certfication with the Cloud Skills ChallengeMicrosoft Ignite is back! And with it, comes the opportunity to go through a learning challenge to earn a FREE certification voucher! You can start by clicking on this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/cloudskillschallenge/ignite/registration/2022??WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003870 This takes you to the challenge site where you can select a challenge that fits best with your learning interests The challenges will start on 12th October but you can pre-register now to be notified. Happy learning and certifying!1 min read1 min read
Published inAzure Nigeria Community Group·Aug 31, 2022Latest FREE Training Opportunities (Aug 2022)This is an opportunity to gain FREE access to five (5) certification courses on acloudguru and Pluralsight. You can choose from one of the options below: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Google Cloud Digital Leader Hashicorp Terraform Associate Certified Kubernetes Administrator Sign up for free with this link — https://www.pluralsight.com/offer/cloud-certification 2. This second opportunity offers FREE vouchers for certifications provided by the Linux Foundation including the Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist and Certified Kubernetes Developer!1 min read1 min read