

The Azure Security Podcast
Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriguez and Mark Simos
A twice-monthly podcast dedicated to all things relating to Security, Privacy, Compliance and Reliability on the Microsoft Cloud Platform. Hosted by Microsoft security experts, Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriguez and Mark Simos. https://aka.ms/azsecpod ©2020-2025 Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriquez, and Mark Simos.
Episodes
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Nov 11, 2022 • 32min
Workload Identities
In this episode Michael, Sarah and Mark talk with guest Joey Snow about Workload Identities in Azure. We also chat about least privilege and privileged accounts in general. Finally, the latest Azure Security news about: Azure Front Door, Log Analytics, Web Application Firewall and AKS SSH keys.

Nov 4, 2022 • 38min
Microsoft Defender for Threat Intelligence
EDIT: Nov 11th, there was an error at around 27m; Gladys and Rijuta were talking over each other. In this episode Michael, Sarah, Gladys and Mark talk with guests Rijuta Kapoor and Brandon about Microsoft Defender for Threat Intelligence. We also discuss Azure Security news about Azure Service Bus and TLS, PostgreSQL, VMs, SQL Server and Confidential VMs, Azure SQL DB, Workload Identities, Microsoft Entra and other security news from Ignite.

Oct 15, 2022 • 46min
The SQL Server Permission Model Explained
In this special, out of band episode, Michael talks to Andreas Wolter about the SQL Server and Azure SQL Database permission model. To many, the model is a mystery, but Andreas explains how it works as Michael poses security challenges.

Oct 7, 2022 • 35min
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
In this episode we talk to Nick Wryter about Microsoft Entra Permissions Management. We also cover the latest security news about Azure Firewall, Azure Database for MySQL, NetApp files, ADLS Gen2, AKS, Conditional Access and Identity Federation.

Sep 28, 2022 • 29min
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Tamper Protection
In this episode, Josh Bregman discusses a critically important feature in MDE - Tamper Protection which helps prevent unwanted changes to your security and essential functions.We also cover the latest security news about Synapse SQL, Service Bus, Storage, Redis, Azure SQL, MySQL, AKS, Managed Disks and Microsoft Defender.

Aug 26, 2022 • 34min
Securing Operational Technology (OT)
In this episode we speak to Elizabeth Stephens about practices and philosophies for protecting OT. We also cover news about SQL MI, Private Endpoints, Load Testing, TLS 1.3, AKS and Confidential VMs and Azur Firewall.Also, this is the first episode to use the phrase "things that are not supposed to blow up!"

Aug 23, 2022 • 45min
Microsoft Defender for Cloud - AWS and GCP
In this episode, we talk to Safeena about Begun about Microsoft Defender for Cloud to monitor multi-cloud environments including Azure, on-prem, AWS and GCP. We also talk about changes coming to Azure's root CA certificates, Microsoft Entra and more.

Aug 9, 2022 • 37min
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Workshop
In this episode Michael and Sarah talk to Mark about the newly version of the CISO Workshop. We also have news about Confidential Ledger, Gateway Load Balancer (new!), Azure Database for MySQL and Trust Launch.

Jul 22, 2022 • 29min
Innovations in Azure Confidential Computing
In this episode, Michael talks to Run Cai and Vikas Bhatia about some of the latest Confidential Computing services available on Azure including new Confidential VMs from AMD.

Jul 12, 2022 • 22min
Microsoft Sentinel Content Hub
In this episode, Michael, Sarah and Mark talk to Roey Ben Chaim about Microsoft Sentinel Content Hub. We also cover the latest security news about Exchange Online, Microsoft Entra Permissions Manager, MSTICPy, Purview DLP, Azure Monitor, Backup and App Insights.