The Azure Security Podcast

In this episode Michael Howard and Sarah Young talk to Gary Buckmaster a Senior Architect in the Microsoft Technology Center in Sydney, Australia, about Azure Datacenter security, compliance and reliability. We also cover news about Azure Attestation, Confidential Computing, Storage and Virtual Machines.

Michael Howard, Sarah Young and Mark Simos with guest Nick Fadziewicz who is a Principal Consultant at Microsoft working in the Azure and AI team.In this episode we cover security news about Azure Datalake Storage Gen 2 ACLs, HDInsight and Azure Batch now support Private Link in preview. TLS protocol version support on Storage accounts, Azure Security Center vulnerability assessments and improved Kubernetes support, Azure Firewall DNS updates and more. Of note is a free e-book "Azure for Architects 3rd Ed" is now available.

This week we cover security news about Log Analytics, Azure Key Vault, IoT, Zero Trust and more. Mark talks about VPN tech, and we then speak to Tom Quinn about the Top 10 Azure Security Practices.

In this episode we discuss Azure security news, including a new member to the Azure Key Vault family, immutable storage, PowerBI and private endpoints, Azure Security Center updates and Azure Top 10 Security practices. Finally, the team chats with Amrita about the Azure Security Benchmark project.

In this special episode Michael Howard and Mark Simos sit down with guest Cyril Voisin to cover the Azure security, compliance and governance news that came out of Microsoft Ignite 2020.The topics covered include updated news on the Microsoft Defender suite, Key Vault, SQL Server, Kubernetes, Data Loss Prevention, Azure Security Center, Zero Trust, Microsoft Information Governance and much more.

In this episode we discuss current Azure security news for VMs, IoT, Azure Arc, Sentinel and more. Mark gives his analysis of the latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report and then Sarah and Michael talk to Aeva about the technology, benefits and future of Confidential Computing on Azure at various levels of the hardware and software stack.

In this episode we discuss recent Azure security news including TLS in IoT (again!), Log Analytics REST APIs, Azure Information Protection, Azure Monitor and Confidential Computing. We then talk to Yina Arenas about the vision behind Microsoft Graph and how it can be used to help build security and IT management solutions.

After covering the new we interview Tali Ash from Microsoft Israel to discuss the tools available in Microsoft Threat Protection to secure Azure and on-prem networks

In this episode we cover the latest Azure security news and Mark chats about the role of threat models and shared responsibility in Azure. Guest, Maryam Rahmani then discusses the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and the role it plays in protecting Dept. of Defense (DoD) contractors from cyber attacks.

The podcast covers latest Azure security news, IT training opportunities post-COVID-19, history of network isolation in Azure, DNS challenges with private endpoints, Azure cloud platform updates, Microsoft Threat Protection, zero waste initiatives, Windows baselines, IoT security enhancements, bug triage in Azure services, importance of network isolation, and utilization of private endpoints for enhanced security.