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David O'Brien

@daveobrien.bsky.social
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Sick of writing cloud assessment reports? ARGOS writes them for you. Founder of ARGOS Cloud Security. Former Microsoft Azure MVP (10 years), private pilot, dad.

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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Reminder! It's almost time that those old pesky TLS versions are turned off by Microsoft. Use ARGOS to help your customers (or yourself) to understand where to start. Watch this short demo of ARGOS in action. argos-security.io/videos/#Find... #azure #cloudsecurity #cloud #cybersecurity
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Apparently, people love to see ARGOS in action and listen to my beautiful voice. Watch demo videos here! argos-security.io/videos/ Learn how easy it is to find issues in #Azure and #EntraID / #M365, and understand them, using our network and infrastructure diagrams. #cloudsecurity #cybersecurity
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🔥 Hottest latest release! 🔥 Why is this "demo" Entra ID user a potential security issue? Explain in one simple image why. (Hint: Global Reader, and access to an Azure Resource Group with important resources, ARGOS also told you "no MFA" 😱) #m365 #entraid #azure
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🔔 New feature alert: Unified Blast-Radius Map 🔔 One diagram shows Entra ID/M365 ➡️ Azure, end-to-end. No KQL, no portal clicking. Watch the 2-min demo here and if you are keen to see more, check our other demos on argos-security.io/videos #entraid #azure #m365 #cloudsecurity
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The recent writeup of the OuttaTune vulnerability (cirriustech.co.uk/blog/outtatu...) by Graham G. inspired us to add and update the following detection into ARGOS. "Ensure only compliant devices can access M365 Office resources" More about ARGOS: argos-security.io
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
👀👀👀 What's this? In the upcoming release ARGOS's cloud assessments will show E2E info from #EntraID to #Azure. Entra apps with security issues and access to Azure resources or a user with admin permissions that has User Access Admin permissions on a Subscription? Info: argos-security.io
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This was an interesting one. Odd errors when attempting to execute #PowerShell from within ARGOS, a c# application running on Linux Azure Functions. These errors took us down a rabbit hole with an interesting root cause and simple solution. cloud-right.com/2025/04/azur... #github #dotnet
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
TIL: Basically the same workflow on GitHub Actions, moved from windows-latest (bottom run) to ubuntu-latest (top run) is almost 50% faster. The top run even has one additional step in it downloading and extracting a 70MB tar from the internet. #github #cicd #windows #linux
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
📎 Cloud Attack Paths 👀 Identifying how someone / something can "walk" through your #Azure cloud is important, and often not trivial. Instead of manual digging, go get a cup of tea and have ARGOS draw you a picture of the environment. argos-security.io #cloudsecurity #microsoftsecurity #entraid
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"we don't control the universities" That didn't age well, @patrick.risky.biz . Should that have been "but we try"? 😕
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
✈️ David on tour ✈️ #Munich - 22-23/05 #Düsseldorf - 26-28/05 (speaking at Cloud Summit) #London - 29-31/05 Who wants to catch up in any of these cities? I'd love to meet up. #cloud #microsoft #m365 #cloudsecurity #entraid #azure
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Short demo of how easy it is to connect Microsoft Power BI to ARGOS Cloud Security. No fancy dashboards here, but I'm sure you can do much better than I can. Let me know what you come up with or what you'd like me to try. youtu.be/BwQhC_8wmVo #powerbi #azure #entraid
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Little sneak peak! Customers ask us regularly "can we build our own #PowerBI dashboard with ARGOS data?". You sure can! We're no PowerBI wizards, but if you are, you have lots of data available to play with. Demo video to come next week. More info on argos-security.io #azure #entraid #m365
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Apparently, there are still people that don't know how awesome our cloud assessment reports are. People that still write reports for Azure or Entra ID from scratch. I feel for you. I recommend you take a look at our sample reports right away. argos-security.io/argos-sample... #azure #entraid
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I hate writing reports, always have. Do you also hate writing reports? Yes, but it's part of your job as a consultant when doing cloud reviews for your customers? Fret no more! Download examples here! argos-security.io/argos-sample... #azure #m365 #entraid #microsoftentra #cloudsecurity
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Want to know what this thing I always talk about is all about? Do you dislike writing reports and rather dive deep into the data? Go ahead check out the ARGOS Cloud Security demo reports and videos: argos-security.io/argos-sample... #entraid #azure #m365 #cloudsecurity
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Got some questions via DMs about this: - yes, all current SCuBA checks (that are automatable) are covered - yes, we're working on further M365 coverage - yes, on average it takes our customers 6 minutes to set this up #entraid #m365 #cloudsecurity
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Are you like me and want to understand how compliant with CISA SCuBA your #EntraID tenant is? One-off or continuous checking, monitoring and reporting, set up in minutes. We eat our own dogfood and get notified whenever ARGOS finds something. Learn more at argos-security.io #m365 #cloudsecurity
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
👀 ARGOS now checks if there is a conditional access policy in your Entra ID that blocks device code flow authentication as per Microsoft guidance. 👀 Learn more on argos-security.io #entraid #m365 #cloudsecurity
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Other products will hide their secret sauce behind paywalls or annoying sales calls, not ARGOS! Download our sample #Cloud Security Assessment reports here: argos-security.io/argos-sample... #azure #entraid #microsoft365 #m365
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Attended a #DevSecOps session today, and while technically correct in what they said, the thing that was missed by all -> None of it will work without organisational structure change. You'll just annoy everybody with findings, vulns, issues, that nobody can do anything about. #azure #security
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
PSA: Only a few months left to find and remediate those legacy TLS resources in Azure. How? Here's a demo video for Storage Accounts. argos-security.io/videos#azure... #azure #cloudsecurity #cloud
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
If you’re a Service Provider or consultant, imagine what that does for your bottom line. Ready to learn more? argos-security.io #entraid #azure
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Consultants! Make use of this offer for your upcoming customer cloud reviews and save a bunch of time and effort, while not having to bother writing boring reports from scratch. argos-security.io/argos-for-co... #entraid #azure
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ARGOS: Designed for Consulting Companies • ARGOS Cloud Security
Scan in minutes, and offer high-margin security assessments at competitive pricing With ARGOS, consulting firms can quickly scan client environments, deliver detailed cloud vulnerability reports, and ...
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Yet another Microsoft Support ticket where I'm being told "this is out of our scope, you need to raise a new ticket with someone else". Then they say "you must use Graph API for this" and when I ask "which API?" they say "there is none". Helpful. Slow. Clap. Thanks!
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
No secrets with us! Bookmark this: argos-security.io All the demo videos in one place, more coming over the next weeks. Next one is for our Service Providers out there. Custom Azure / Entra ID / M365 security dashboards with PowerBI powered by ARGOS. #azure #entraid #m365 #powerbi
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Love feedback like this. They've been one of our earliest customers, shaping the product, and in turn getting great results for them and their customers when assessing Azure and Entra ID / M365 environments. For consultancies, saving time = saving money. What's not to like? argos-security.io
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Create Entra ID Application with permissions, consent grant, and secret, using PowerShell. (including script!) argos-security.io/2025/01/29/c... #entraid #powershell #m365
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Create Entra ID App Registration using PowerShell • ARGOS Cloud Security
Quite regularly teams need to create Entra ID App Registrations. One use case might be the onboarding of a SaaS (like ARGOS Cloud Security) into their environment. To simplify this process, we’ve deve...
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hey nonprofits, here's something for you. Check out our special #entraid , #m365, and #azure offer for you: argos-security.io/argos-for-no... We want to support you and make security accessible to everybody!
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Recorded a new demo video. Do people like subtitles? No subtitles? Subtitles because I have a funny accent? What's it going to be?
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Still, no secrets! Yesterday I showed you how to assess Entra ID / M365 in under 10 minutes. Here you can download sample reports of such assessments, for free: argos-security.io/argos-sample... #entraid #azure #m365
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Want to assess your Entra ID environment (and also your Azure cloud?) in under 10 minutes and get a comprehensive report with clear recommendations? Check how in this <3min demo. argos-security.io/videos/#entr... #entraid #azure
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Has anybody managed to use bicep to connect a Flex Consumption #Azure Function to a subnet / vnet integration? All I'm getting is this error in the screenshot (when testing via portal). The portal says the subnet is available for integration. No, no other error, of course.
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
One thing that really pi**es me off with Microsoft Support is their inability / unwillingness to route tickets internally. "Not in our scope, we'll archive this ticket. Find someone else." Your internal structures are not my problem. I don't need to know your RACIs.
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Today I remembered... Large GitHub Pull Requests break GitHub Actions. If you have a lot of changed files (large refactor) then some build actions (if you have multiples on a repo) will not trigger.
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
GitHub is unhappy :(
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Ever seen a more useless error message? "There was an unexpected InternalServerError." Thanks Azure Functions.
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I know which one I'd rather do... How about you? Learn more on argos-security.io #cloudsecurity #m365 #azure #entraid
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
WTH is happening with the #Azure SQL Resource Provider? How are all of these still in preview? #bicep #microsoftazure
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
No secrets with ARGOS. Happy new year! We released 30 new controls (over 70 now!) for #EntraID & #M365 that are assessed with almost no effort from your side, in minutes, generating a comprehensive, usable report. What controls? See 👇 Watch demo videos & get a sample report from argos-security.io
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
"Prepare to be rescued" - Microsoft Support 😂😂😂
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Microsoft wants people to standardise on GraphAPI. Bummer that most of the M365 admin stuff is not available in GraphAPI. 👎 Want to get or set Teams meeting policies? Nope. ❌ Want to get or set anything Exchange related? Nope ❌
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Literally, at the 11th hour... (only had 50mins until it expired) Clearly, can still perform the cyberz at 11pm, while on holidays. 👏 Nice to see some updated questions on #entraid , #azure , #m365 and #sentinel
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🎅 Santa is clever enough to rely on his elves to make the magic happen-smart consultants rely on ARGOS. 🎄 Santa knows you can’t do it all alone. With ARGOS, you have the ultimate helper. Because creating magic doesn’t mean doing it all yourself! #cloudsecurity #azure #microsoftentraid #entraid
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Save money on your non-prod #Azure VMs You're already turning your Azure VMs off over the holidays? Nice! Want to save even more money? (No, I'm not telling you to delete them 😂) Find some handy #PowerShell code in this short blog article. cloud-right.com/2024/12/azur... #microsoft #cloud
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Azure - Save Money by Changing Disk Type
Azure - Save Money by Changing Disk Type Here’s a quick tip to save money on your Azure VMs by changing the disk type. Especially over the holidays, when you might be running VMs for development or te...
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Just published an Entra ID demo video! Apply an #EntraID Conditional Access Policy to your Copilots! Control who can access the copilots from where, and how! argos-security.io/videos/#entr... #microsoftentra #cloudsecurity #generativeai
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🖥️❄️Let it scan, let it scan, let it scan! Automated security with ARGOS. 🖥️❄️ Learn more at argos-security.io/videos #cloudsecurity #microsoft #entraid
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🎄☁️ Rocking around the cloud security tree with ARGOS automated assessment reports! 🎄☁️ #cloudsecurity #microsoftazure #azure #entraid
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David O'Brien @daveobrien.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Just published an Entra ID demo video! Apply an #EntraID Conditional Access Policy to your Copilots! Control who can access the copilots from where, and how! argos-security.io/videos/#entr... #microsoftentra #cloudsecurity #generativeai
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