Importing Palo Alto policies to Azure Firewall

I recently had a project where we had the chance to convert a Palo Alto ruleset to an Azure Firewall Policy. I had recently created a script to generate a Firewall Policy for Microsoft 365 endpoints, so the challenge was using that work as a basis to generate an Azure Firewall Policy out of the … Continue reading Importing Palo Alto policies to Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall rules for Office 365

This post is going to be a bit different than the rest, because I have no complex network designs with many boxes and IP addresses. Instead, I have been confronted with a different challenge: how can you configure Azure Firewall to allow traffic to Office 365 endpoints? Why would you want to do that? There … Continue reading Azure Firewall rules for Office 365

Azure Firewall’s sidekick to join the BGP superheroes

Azure Firewall is a fantastic product: oversimplifying, an architecture that scales out great, provides traffic forwarding and security in Azure, and is very easy to integrate in a network. Some times you need to manipulate the default routing of Azure VNets, and Azure Route Server offers an invaluable tool for that. However, Azure Route Server … Continue reading Azure Firewall’s sidekick to join the BGP superheroes

Virtual WAN: secure hubs in multiple regions

This article was posted in 2020. In the meantime, Azure Virtual WAN Routing Intent has been released with the functionality of securing hub-to-hub traffic. See the official documentation page here: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/how-to-routing-policies. You probably know Azure Virtual WAN, an Azure technology that abstracts hybrid networking by providing Microsoft-managed Virtual Hubs that use the Microsoft backbone to … Continue reading Virtual WAN: secure hubs in multiple regions

Filtering traffic to Private Endpoints with Azure Firewall

If you are reading this, you probably already know what Azure Private Link is: a representation of a service such as Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure Application Service, or even some application running in a different Virtual Network, in your own Virtual Network with a private IP address of your own. This is a … Continue reading Filtering traffic to Private Endpoints with Azure Firewall