Tag: Security

How to: Using managed identities to access Cosmos DB data via RBAC and disabling authentication via keys

July 1, 2021

Historically, authenticating against Microsoft’s Cosmos DB service has only been possible in one of two ways: Either by using keys – long passwords that grant you either full read or read-write access to all data in the Cosmos DB account – or by building a custom user management solution that generates short-lived tokens to specific … More How to: Using managed identities to access Cosmos DB data via RBAC and disabling authentication via keys

Building a secure Azure data platform

November 7, 2020

One common concern people often have with the cloud is security: Is moving business data – or any data in general – to the cloud from on-premises secure? The short answer is, yes, it is secure. Or in more detail: It is secure, often even more secure than on-premises, but that is assuming your data platform is designed and built with security in mind. … More Building a secure Azure data platform