

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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Jul 8, 2022 • 21min
Advanced Threat Hunting with Microsoft 365 Defender
Michael sits down with Michael Melone to discuss hunting for adversaries using Microsoft 365 Defender's Advanced hunting capabilities.Azure security news this week includes Azure Advisor for MySQL, using custom CAs with AKS, App Gateway Private Link, continuous backup in Cosmos DB, and API Management CSP and CORS support.

Jun 28, 2022 • 42min
Practical Zero Trust
Michael and Sara talk to Matt Soseman about his take on practical Zero Trust and Michael goes on a rant about Zero Trust's Assume Breach pillar. We also cover Azure news about Azure SQL DB, Container Apps, Bastion, Sentinel and Microsoft Entra.

Jun 14, 2022 • 28min
Azure SQL Managed Instance Windows Authentication
In this episode Michael talks to Sravani Saluru who is a Senior Program Manager in the Azure Data Platform, about Azure SQL Managed Instance and Windows authentication support which is in preview. We talk about where SQL MI fits in the SQL family, as well as how to configure SQL MI so your one-prem client can access SQL MI in Azure seamlessly.

May 24, 2022 • 25min
Azure SQL Database Ledger
In this special episode Sarah and Michael talk to Pieter Vanhove about Azure SQL Database Ledger.Ledger is a new feature built into Azure SQL DB and SQL Server 2022. that helps protect data from tampering from attackers or high-privileged users, including database administrators (DBAs), system administrators, and cloud administrators.

May 18, 2022 • 43min
Microsoft Defender for Containers
In this episode we talk to Shay Amar about Microsoft Defender for Containers, we go into the weeds in places! Also, Azure security news about Confidential Compute VMs, Azure Arc, Sentinel and Ransomware. Michael and Sarah also discuss their experiences with the AZ-500 exam refresh.

Apr 18, 2022 • 43min
Updates to CosmosDB Security
In this episode we speak to Thomas Weiss from the Azure Data team about new security capabilities in CosmosDB, specifically Always Encrypted and data-plane RBAC. We also have security news about Confidential Compute, Azure Data Explorer, Load Balancer, DNS Reservations, ZLoader malware, Azure Monitor, MSTICPy and NIST SP 800-40.

Apr 4, 2022 • 47min
Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures
In this special episode, Mark chats about the MCRA as well as the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), and various related topics. We shied away from the news this week to focus on Mark's topic, but Michael couldn't resist talking about the fact that CosmosDB now supports Always Encrypted.

Mar 23, 2022 • 46min
RiskIQ Explained
Gladys and Michael talk to Jason Zann, VP, Head of Platform about RiskIQ, a recent Microsoft acquisition. We also cover the latest security news about API Management, Azure Monitor, Defender for Cloud, Identity Protection and Sensitivity labels.

Mar 11, 2022 • 47min
Microsoft Compliance Manager
We chat with Al Eardley about Compliance, Security and Microsoft Compliance Manager, as well as news about CosmosDB, Azure Load Testing, CodeQL, Azure Active Directory, Zero Trust, Sentinel and new cyber blog from Microsoft.

Feb 22, 2022 • 59min
Microsoft Defender for IoT
We talk to Chris Hallum about all things Microsoft Defender for IoT. He also discusses IoT security in detail, as well as some new features on the horizon. Also, we cover the news for Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Active Directory, Azure SQL DB, new Azure Learning resources, Azure Monitor and Payment HSM.