Programming

Client certificates in ASP.NET

One aspect of security which I find interesting is Client Certificate Authentication. It may sound a bit old school to send along a certificate with your request, with the JWT authentication methods that are in fashion for the past years. However I think it still has a valuable purpose to fulfill.

CI CD, Programming

SQL Server Authentication and Authorization on Azure with Managed Identities

Deploying infrastructure to Azure is easy enough these days with Azure Powershell, CLI or Bicep. Making interactions between infrastructure components secure is also facilitated in Azure with Managed Identities for example. Databases however, often have their own authentication and authorization internally which is out of reach for Bicep and ARM templates. How can you secure your dynamically created SQL Server databases in Azure?

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