

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.
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Feb 11, 2022 • 45min
Microsoft Sentinel Extensions
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.

Jan 26, 2022 • 36min
Lessons from moving to Zero Trust in a SOC
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.

Jan 14, 2022 • 52min
Security: The Boring Bits!
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.

Dec 29, 2021 • 42min
Everything you need to know about Azure Policy
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.

Dec 10, 2021 • 44min
Inside Azure Monitor
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.

Nov 16, 2021 • 28min
MS Ignite Security Highlights
In this episode we chat with Abbas Kudrati about the latest security news and announcements from the recent Microsoft Ignite event. There were numerous announcement including naming changes for some of the products you know and love.

Nov 5, 2021 • 38min
Jupyter Notebooks for Incident Response
We speak to Julie Koesmarno about Jupyter Notebooks on Azure generally, and specifically about using them to help with Incident Response. We also cover security news about .NET 6.0, Azure Monitor, HDInsight, Azure Static Web Apps, Azure Key Vault, Kubernetes, Firewall, Sentinel, Ransomware, IoT Solutions and more!

Oct 22, 2021 • 45min
Microsoft Digital Defense Report
We talk to Mark McIntyre about the recent Microsoft Digital Defense Report. The two Marks discuss at length the report as well as cyber-crime, ransomware, digital currencies and more. We also cover security news about Azure Security Center, Windows 11, OWASP Top 10 2021 and the OWASP 20th anniversary, the recent 2.4Tbps DDoS against Azure Sentinel and Mark updates his 'Mark's List'

Oct 6, 2021 • 29min
Azure Active Directory Conditional Access
In this episode we talk to Daniel Wood about Conditional Access in Azure Active Directory, some best practices and a few hints about future updates,We also discuss security news about Azure disks, Purview, Site Recovery, Azure SQL DB, Defender for IoT, Ransomware and more.Daniel and Michael discuss 'Do no Harm' in Security...

Sep 22, 2021 • 42min
Attacker Tradecraft with Simuland
In this episode we talk to Roberto Rodriguez about a Microsoft open source tool to help researchers understand how attackers attack and compromise systems. Simuland lets you deploy labs to reproduce and learn from attack techniques and test your own detection and prevention tooling.We also have awesome news about NSG and UDR support in Private Link, Azure Virtual Desktop, SMB 3.1.1, Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer, Azure Security Center, Windows 11 and Microsoft Cloud Reference Architectures.