Azure Key Vault Logging

Following up from last week’s post on Azure Key Vault in this blog I will show you how to the setup Key Vault logging I mentioned for auditing access and usage of your key vault. Once we walk through the process of enabling your logging, we will configure Azure Log Analytics as a way to analyze that data. Azure Log Analytics uses advanced analytics and machine learning to analyze your azure log files. It adds intelligent insights to your monitored data such as Key Vault usage and access  as well as latency in key retrieval from your Audit Event Logs.… Continue Reading

What is Azure Key Vault?

Keys and secrets (AKA passwords)  are an essential part of data protection management not only on-premises, but within the cloud as well. One of the many advantages of cloud is the ability to have a secure, persisted key store. If you have used a password manager like Keepass or 1Password, you can consider Azure Key Vault to be an enterprise level password manager, but also a lot more. One of the functions that Azure Key Vault supports is for you to keep small secrets such as passwords, tokens, connection strings, API keys as well as encryption keys and certificates in… Continue Reading