One of the requests that I received last week was to optimize the workflow for cross-tenancy log collection. The solutions I proposed to be used are shown below, and it’s very important to use the OCI resources with Cross Tenancy capabilities, and have the proper policies in place: Cross-Tenancy Policies …

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, multi-cloud environments have become a staple for businesses seeking flexibility, innovation, and resilience. Unlike traditional single-cloud setups, multi-cloud environments leverage the strengths of various cloud providers, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), to optimize operations and enhance capabilities. Managing a multi-cloud setup efficiently requires specialized…

One of the tasks I have helped my customers is importing prebuilt Dashboards. The dashboards that I will import in this guide are the ones from WAF, and are also accessible here. How to export the WAF is also available in this blog: Monitoring OCI WAF with Logging Analytics We are happy to present a new way of getting additional security insights using two existing Oracle Cloud…blogs.oracle.com After you have the Dashboard, you go…

Recently Oracle migrated most of the existing customers from IDCS to Identity Domains. With the new offering, they added new options in the free tier, that before were in the paid version.

One of the use-cases I see daily is Grafana ingesting OCI Monitoring metrics. Earlier this year I have created a blog entry for using Grafana from Security Onion for this, but I also got the request to create a guide on how to do it from scratch. 1- You need…

Recently Oracle has updated the Bastion Service keys to use the ED25519 algorithm, and some of you can get some errors when you try to ssh to the service. # NOTE: The OCI Bastion Host has rotated known host keys to use the ED25519 algorithm. If you receive a man-in-the-middle…

Earlier I have created a blog post related to Streaming the logs to Splunk v8, and I will create another entry with the latest version of Splunk, as the console has some changes and my previous blog might not be accurate anymore. After the installation of Splunk, next step is…

Recently I returned from holidays, and I realized that I forgot one of my Windows instances user password in OCI. As I had many tools already installed on it, re-install wasn’t an option. When I was before in this situation, I used this blog. Tutorial: How to Reset a Forgotten Password for a Windows Instance Forgetting your Administrator password on Windows Server is frustrating, but don't despair-this post shows you how to…blogs.oracle.com

In OCI you have the capability to use different Processor Vendors with different shapes, based on your need. The first 3 Tabs with the Vendors AMD, Intel, and Ampere will have the latest processor versions. The below analysis is done for the OCI Instances. OCVS will have the available shapes…