In late November 2023, a phishing campaign successfully compromised hundreds of user accounts, including those belonging to high-ranking executives, across dozens of Microsoft Azure environments.

In today’s interconnected digital landscape, robust IAM (Identity and Access Management) practices are critical pillars of an organization’s cybersecurity strategy. IAM serves as the fortress guarding sensitive data, applications, and systems from unauthorized access or breaches. Implementing top-tier IAM practices ensures not only data protection but also compliance adherence and streamlined user access.

Observability strategies are needed to ensure stable and performant applications, especially when complex distributed environments back them. Large volumes of observability data are collected to support automatic insights into these areas of applications. Logs, metrics, and traces are the three pillars of observability that feed these insights. Security data is often isolated instead of combined with data collected by existing observability tools.