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David O'Brien

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Sick of writing cloud assessment reports? ARGOS writes them for you. Founder of ARGOS Cloud Security. Former Microsoft Azure MVP (10 years), private pilot, dad.

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Reminder! It's almost time that those old pesky TLS versions are turned off by Microsoft. Use ARGOS to help your customers (or yourself) to understand where to start.
Watch this short demo of ARGOS in action.

argos-security.io/videos/#Find...

#azure #cloudsecurity #cloud #cybersecurity

01.07.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apparently, people love to see ARGOS in action and listen to my beautiful voice. Watch demo videos here!

argos-security.io/videos/

Learn how easy it is to find issues in #Azure and #EntraID / #M365, and understand them, using our network and infrastructure diagrams.

#cloudsecurity #cybersecurity

16.06.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Automated Cloud Assessments for Consultants Full cloud inventory & detections in minutes, mapped to common compliance frameworks. Attack Surface mapping and attack path analysis. Cherry on top: ARGOS writes the report for you.

Want to learn more about our new "Entra ID to Azure paths"? argos-security.io

19.05.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”₯ Hottest latest release! πŸ”₯

Why is this "demo" Entra ID user a potential security issue?
Explain in one simple image why.
(Hint: Global Reader, and access to an Azure Resource Group with important resources, ARGOS also told you "no MFA" 😱)

#m365 #entraid #azure

19.05.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”” New feature alert: Unified Blast-Radius Map πŸ””

One diagram shows Entra ID/M365 ➑️ Azure, end-to-end.
No KQL, no portal clicking.
Watch the 2-min demo here and if you are keen to see more, check our other demos on argos-security.io/videos

#entraid #azure #m365 #cloudsecurity

09.05.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The recent writeup of the OuttaTune vulnerability (cirriustech.co.uk/blog/outtatu...) by Graham G. inspired us to add and update the following detection into ARGOS.

"Ensure only compliant devices can access M365 Office resources"

More about ARGOS: argos-security.io

02.05.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What's this? In the upcoming release ARGOS's cloud assessments will show E2E info from #EntraID to #Azure.
Entra apps with security issues and access to Azure resources or a user with admin permissions that has User Access Admin permissions on a Subscription?
Info: argos-security.io

28.04.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This was an interesting one. Odd errors when attempting to execute #PowerShell from within ARGOS, a c# application running on Linux Azure Functions. These errors took us down a rabbit hole with an interesting root cause and simple solution.

cloud-right.com/2025/04/azur...

#github #dotnet

28.04.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a t-rex is standing in front of a car that says ' jurassic park ' on the side ALT: a t-rex is standing in front of a car that says ' jurassic park ' on the side
27.04.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kind of makes sense that there's focus on those products (not defending some of their pretty basic problems).
The fact that they often have wide access (network and/or permissions) on most systems in an environment makes them a great target.

27.04.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TIL: Basically the same workflow on GitHub Actions, moved from windows-latest (bottom run) to ubuntu-latest (top run) is almost 50% faster.

The top run even has one additional step in it downloading and extracting a 70MB tar from the internet.

#github #cicd #windows #linux

25.04.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While architecturally, this is almost as desired, the point here is, the web service is unprotected (no API Gateway, no WAF, etc) and people often don't understand what paths they open up in an environment via managed identities.

16.04.2025 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“Ž Cloud Attack Paths πŸ‘€

Identifying how someone / something can "walk" through your #Azure cloud is important, and often not trivial.
Instead of manual digging, go get a cup of tea and have ARGOS draw you a picture of the environment.

argos-security.io

#cloudsecurity #microsoftsecurity #entraid

16.04.2025 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"we don't control the universities"

That didn't age well, @patrick.risky.biz .
Should that have been "but we try"? πŸ˜•

16.04.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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✈️ David on tour ✈️
#Munich - 22-23/05
#DΓΌsseldorf - 26-28/05 (speaking at Cloud Summit)
#London - 29-31/05
Who wants to catch up in any of these cities? I'd love to meet up.

#cloud #microsoft #m365 #cloudsecurity #entraid #azure

14.04.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Connect Microsoft Power BI and ARGOS Cloud Security
YouTube video by ARGOS Cloud Security Connect Microsoft Power BI and ARGOS Cloud Security

Short demo of how easy it is to connect Microsoft Power BI to ARGOS Cloud Security.
No fancy dashboards here, but I'm sure you can do much better than I can.
Let me know what you come up with or what you'd like me to try.

youtu.be/BwQhC_8wmVo

#powerbi #azure #entraid

02.04.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Little sneak peak! Customers ask us regularly "can we build our own #PowerBI dashboard with ARGOS data?". You sure can!
We're no PowerBI wizards, but if you are, you have lots of data available to play with.

Demo video to come next week.

More info on argos-security.io

#azure #entraid #m365

28.03.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apparently, there are still people that don't know how awesome our cloud assessment reports are.
People that still write reports for Azure or Entra ID from scratch.

I feel for you. I recommend you take a look at our sample reports right away.
argos-security.io/argos-sample...

#azure #entraid

21.03.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I hate writing reports, always have.
Do you also hate writing reports?
Yes, but it's part of your job as a consultant when doing cloud reviews for your customers?

Fret no more! Download examples here!

argos-security.io/argos-sample...

#azure #m365 #entraid #microsoftentra #cloudsecurity

06.03.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Want to know what this thing I always talk about is all about?
Do you dislike writing reports and rather dive deep into the data?
Go ahead check out the ARGOS Cloud Security demo reports and videos:
argos-security.io/argos-sample...

#entraid #azure #m365 #cloudsecurity

28.02.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Got some questions via DMs about this:
- yes, all current SCuBA checks (that are automatable) are covered
- yes, we're working on further M365 coverage
- yes, on average it takes our customers 6 minutes to set this up

#entraid #m365 #cloudsecurity

27.02.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you like me and want to understand how compliant with CISA SCuBA your #EntraID tenant is?

One-off or continuous checking, monitoring and reporting, set up in minutes.

We eat our own dogfood and get notified whenever ARGOS finds something.

Learn more at argos-security.io

#m365 #cloudsecurity

26.02.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ‘€ ARGOS now checks if there is a conditional access policy in your Entra ID that blocks device code flow authentication as per Microsoft guidance.
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Learn more on argos-security.io

#entraid #m365 #cloudsecurity

25.02.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Other products will hide their secret sauce behind paywalls or annoying sales calls, not ARGOS!
Download our sample #Cloud Security Assessment reports here:

argos-security.io/argos-sample...

#azure #entraid #microsoft365 #m365

19.02.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Attended a #DevSecOps session today, and while technically correct in what they said, the thing that was missed by all -> None of it will work without organisational structure change.
You'll just annoy everybody with findings, vulns, issues, that nobody can do anything about.

#azure #security

13.02.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PSA: Only a few months left to find and remediate those legacy TLS resources in Azure.
How? Here's a demo video for Storage Accounts.

argos-security.io/videos#azure...

#azure #cloudsecurity #cloud

13.02.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you’re a Service Provider or consultant, imagine what that does for your bottom line.

Ready to learn more? argos-security.io

#entraid #azure

13.02.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ARGOS: Designed for Consulting Companies β€’ ARGOS Cloud Security Scan in minutes, and offer high-margin security assessments at competitive pricing With ARGOS, consulting firms can quickly scan client environments, deliver detailed cloud vulnerability reports, and ...

Consultants!
Make use of this offer for your upcoming customer cloud reviews and save a bunch of time and effort, while not having to bother writing boring reports from scratch.

argos-security.io/argos-for-co...

#entraid #azure

11.02.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So much "old" stuff in this doco. "Windows Azure Active Directory", "Azure AD Graph"...
Already working on adding this new guidance to ARGOS though.

05.02.2025 06:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet another Microsoft Support ticket where I'm being told "this is out of our scope, you need to raise a new ticket with someone else".
Then they say "you must use Graph API for this" and when I ask "which API?" they say "there is none".
Helpful. Slow. Clap. Thanks!

31.01.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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