

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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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.

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.


