The Azure Security Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode we speak to Matt Egen about how Microsoft Sentinel can pull in telemetry and threat intel data from various sources. He talks about the new Codeless Connectors as well as his views on IP-based filtering.

We talk to Kristin Burke about some of the lessons learned and best practices when moving to Zero Trust and how that affects the Security Operations Center or SOC.Lots of news too: Azure Cache for Redis, API Management, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Sentinel, KQL and Confidential Compute.

In this episode we talk to Jess Dodson about some of the basic security practices she sees Azure users do well and could improve. We also discuss the latest news about Log4j, Azure Key Vault and automatic key rotation, Storage and AD and ABAC and new security training.

In this episode Michael, Sarah, Gladys and Mark talk to Liz Kim about the innards of Azure Policy as well as best practices for effective deployment of Policy. She also outlines some of the exciting new features coming soon.We also discuss news about App Service and Azure Functions, new Confidential Compute VMs, Azure Bastion, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AKS, ExpressRoute and more.

In this episode Michael and Mark talk to Dave Lubash about Azure Monitor. We also cover news about Zero Trust Commandments, Azure SQL DB, Logic Apps, Confidential Computing, AKS and Log Analytics.