Andreas Wolter
@AndreasWolter
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Microsoft Certified Solutions Master Data Platform (MCM+MCSM), ex Microsoft PM SQL Security. He/him. 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇦🇪 🇹🇭 🇻🇳 🇺🇸 @andreaswolter.bsky.social
mostly in Asia and US
Joined September 2010
🎥 Meeting recording! 🚀 Whether you missed the Data Driven Community session from Oct 23 or want to rewatch it, here’s your chance! Learn from Andreas Wolter about Contained Availability Groups in SQL Server 2022. 👉 Watch now: https://t.co/eS6DljCopR
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I bet at least 80% of Entra admins would blindly grant RoleManagement.ReadWrite.All to an Enterprise app that was purchased by their company Most wouldn't even know what that means - and in doing so, they practically give Global Admin level permissions to the application vendor
@IAMERICAbooted Yeah, not long ago an app requested app role RoleManagement.ReadWrite.All - and by using Graph logs in a dev tenant I found out that the ONLY reason was that the automated onboarding process had to assign a non-GA Entra role to a service principal. 😵💫 «How ‘bout no»
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🚀 Learn how Contained Availability Groups simplify SQL Server 2022 management! 🎤 Join Andreas Wolter, Ex-Microsoft Senior Program Manager, for a demo-packed session! 🗓 Oct 23, 12:00 PM EDT Register 👉 https://t.co/E0sXOHDoUy
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Since their introduction in SQL Server 2012, **Always On Availability Groups** have become the preferred high availability technology for many DBAs. **SQL Server 2022** int
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Incredible. Chavismo is what happens when socialism succeeds, not when it fails: repression, poverty, corruption, and looting by elites. The "promises to lift millions out of poverty" are a scam to take total power, then the real program is unveiled.
The New York Times concludes that Venezuela was destroyed by “brutal capitalism.” Unreal.
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It's war.
JUST NOW: Just-released research from Microsoft finds that Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea have sharply increased their use of AI to deceive people online and mount cyberattacks against the US. Israel and Ukraine were the 2nd and 3rd most popular cybertargets, after the US.
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🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 The US Senate has passed The Abducted Ukrainian Children Recovery and Accountability Act — bipartisan legislation aimed at helping Ukraine locate, return, and rehabilitate children abducted by Russia during its full-scale invasion. The Act, introduced by @SenAmyKlobuchar
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Think a second what it means to be taken by people from a hostile nation, brought into a re-education camp where you are forced to glorify russia, get military training to eventually have to fight for your kidnapping nations interests. Over 100.000 stolen children so far..
From a Russian indoctrination camp to freedom—Valeriia's story unfolds in Evgeny Afineevsky’s new documentary Children in the Fire, shared by @thetimes. 🧵 1/9 ⬇️
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Can't stress enough what happens when EntraID/AzureAD gets breached. Anyone can be affected, no matter the actual target.
I've been researching the Microsoft cloud for almost 7 years now. A few months ago that research resulted in the most impactful vulnerability I will probably ever find: a token validation flaw allowing me to get Global Admin in any Entra ID tenant. Blog:
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Published the final article in my 3-part series about the challenges of auditing access to data in Microsoft #SQLServer, #AzureSQL, and SQL #database in #Fabric: https://t.co/h1z0WzoPUz Shedding light on several tricky ways to evade auditing
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Groups like Scattered Spider are more aggressively targeting employees to buy or recruit initial access. That got me thinking. Maybe companies should adopt a similar approach in reverse. What if companies flipped the script and offered even bigger monetary rewards in exchange for
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Every company’s cyber arch nemesis, Scattered Spider, is back in the news, and they hit a US-based bank. Considering their reliance on social engineering as an attack vector, I’m sharing a few control recommendations to help mitigate risk: Maintain a “Do Not Touch” List of
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Never forget it! One root cause of why Putin’s Russia is waging a new war in Europe lies in the fact that Stalin’s Russia escaped punishment as one of the initiators of the Second World War.
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Many audit teams responsible for compliance regarding sensitive data leakage are no doubt gnashing their teeth over this. If you haven't made a judgment about whether Copilot use should be allowed in your enterprise (and, if so where and for what) your time is up.
Microsoft: “Open your eyes. Look how helpful we are. We’ll install Copilot for you. Automatically. You’re welcome.” Opt-out, of course. After all, what’s user consent in 2025? https://t.co/rB9lfrCmag
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Much more. And any fantasists in Europe who think this will end with negotiations over Ukraine isn't paying attention. Russia has shifted to a war-only economy and culture and it can't just be turned off or turned around. It must be completely defeated.
Russia is radicalizing and militarizing its next generation, preparing it for future wars of aggression. The whole society is sick with fascism and imperialism. It's more than a "Putin problem."
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I was asked to review a vulnerability discovered in Auditing Classified Data in #SQLServer. It is a valid security risk, since it enables undetected data exfiltration by a low-privileged user. For details and guidance, check out my post here: https://t.co/6ywmWCG8qj
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In 2022, I watched Russia come across the border and launch Grad rockets into government buildings, schools, and hospitals. To hear Putin repeat that ‘Russia only hits military targets’ is sickening. What he really needs is The Hague.
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Putin must face defeat in Ukraine & economic ruin in Russia to the degree it threatens his grip on power, the only thing he cares about. Dictators are cowards against strength because the consequences of losing are so dire--usually fatal. So they run away & declare victory.
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Some pretty crazy sights of what rolled over us last night: https://t.co/6o2dKgbCoO So if you wonder why my timeline is setting on dust - this is why. Gotta get the garden out of my pool.
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It takes a big man to admit he was wrong. @RyanMcbeth just published an incredible video titled “I Was Wrong About Israel.” I’ll link the full piece below, which I highly recommend watching. But this part was my favorite: "You know, we talk about Israel like it's this abstract
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