Practitioner writing on cloud security, Zero Trust, identity, and AI by Razi Rais.https://razibinrais.com/en-ushttps://razibinrais.com/writing/cissp-in-a-weekend/https://razibinrais.com/writing/cissp-in-a-weekend/I've been taking certifications for over twenty years. Most of them blurred together. Study for weeks, memorize a bunch of stuff, dump it into an exam, forget half of it by dinner. You know the drill.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityCloudCertificationshttps://razibinrais.com/writing/security-patterns-client-side/https://razibinrais.com/writing/security-patterns-client-side/Great to have Dr. Philippe De Ryck on the podcast. He talked about various security challenges faced by developers while working with client-side applications.Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMTSecurityCloudCryptographyhttps://razibinrais.com/writing/r3-corda-platform/https://razibinrais.com/writing/r3-corda-platform/In this podcast, I talk to Austin from R3 talks about technical aspects of R3 Corda including its architecture, consensus, programming model, etc.Sun, 12 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTPodcasthttps://razibinrais.com/writing/kubernetes-devops-helm/https://razibinrais.com/writing/kubernetes-devops-helm/This is the second post in a multi-part blog series on Kubernetes DevOps using Azure. I am co-authoring this series with the help of my colleague at Microsoft, Daniel Selman.Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTCloudAzureDevOpshttps://razibinrais.com/writing/kubernetes-devops-intro/https://razibinrais.com/writing/kubernetes-devops-intro/This is the first post in a multi-part blog series on Kubernetes DevOps using Azure. I am co-authoring this series with the help of my colleague at Microsoft, Daniel Selman.Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTCloudAzureDevOpshttps://razibinrais.com/writing/blockchain-auditing/https://razibinrais.com/writing/blockchain-auditing/On 21st February, I will be conducting an event at Microsoft NYC campus on building and running a fully functional blockchain based audit trail application.Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTCloudAzureBlockchainhttps://razibinrais.com/writing/r3-corda-azure/https://razibinrais.com/writing/r3-corda-azure/R3 Corda is a blockchain-inspired distributed ledger technology (DLT) from R3 that is specifically designed for financial and regulated transactions, and emphasizes privacy and security between participants.Sun, 05 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTCloudAzureBlockchainhttps://razibinrais.com/writing/homomorphic-encryption/https://razibinrais.com/writing/homomorphic-encryption/I was recently exploring methods for improved privacy using various encryption schemes and stumbled upon Homomorphic Encryption that has a huge potential in that area.Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTCryptographyhttps://razibinrais.com/writing/docker-linux-azure/https://razibinrais.com/writing/docker-linux-azure/For an upcoming developer event on Docker I had to create handful of Linux Ubuntu virtual machines on Azure with Docker and few additional software installed on it.Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTCloudAzureContainershttps://razibinrais.com/writing/blockchain-101-event/https://razibinrais.com/writing/blockchain-101-event/Some of you may already be aware that I host NYC MS Cloud User Group technology meet up every month at Microsoft Manhattan campus.This month, I will be hosting/presenting alongside with my colleague CTue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTCloudAzureBlockchainhttps://razibinrais.com/writing/devops-with-containers/https://razibinrais.com/writing/devops-with-containers/Recently I did a video series for Microsoft Channel9 on DevOps with Containers (thanks to Lex Thomas and Chris Caldwell for recording these).Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTCloudAzureDevOpshttps://razibinrais.com/writing/first-look-into-blockchain/https://razibinrais.com/writing/first-look-into-blockchain/Since last year, I have been spending time with customers understanding how blockchain can help them improve/replace existing processess. Its relatively a new technology but evolving very fast.Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTCloudAzureBlockchainhttps://razibinrais.com/writing/macbook-pro-custom-resolution/https://razibinrais.com/writing/macbook-pro-custom-resolution/I recently experience an inconvenience when I discovered that on MacBook Pro Retina running OS X El Captain (and even few of its predecessors as I found out) you cannot set custom resolution.Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTMachttps://razibinrais.com/writing/secure-web-api-client-certificate/https://razibinrais.com/writing/secure-web-api-client-certificate/During recent customer engagement there was a discussion around client certificate [a.k.a tls mutual] authentication and how to use it with asp.net web api that is hosted on azure as a azure api app.Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTSecurityIdentityCloudhttps://razibinrais.com/writing/install-adfs-windows-server-2016/https://razibinrais.com/writing/install-adfs-windows-server-2016/Recently I ran into situations where have to build a developer enviorment that needs active directory federation services [adfs] running on windows server 2016 [currently in technical preview 4, hence w2k16-tp4,].Mon, 15 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTIdentityCloudAzurehttps://razibinrais.com/writing/report-unused-azure-iaas-disks/https://razibinrais.com/writing/report-unused-azure-iaas-disks/If you’re using Azure VMs in your organization one of the common governance challenge is to identify the unused disk space that was just lying around in azure storage unused and cost company money unnecessarily.Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTCloudAzure