The Azure Security Podcast

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...

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.

Michael and David Trigano of the Azure Defender for SQL Vuln Assessment geek out about SQL security. Gladys discusses the ramifications of the recent Executive Order on Cybersecurity and Mark describes some new MS Cybersecurity Reference Architecture material. Sarah is still taking a break, but she'll be back soon.

In this episode we talk to Michael Makhlevich about Azure Defender for SQL - Threat Protection. Michael Howard and our guest geek out about common SQL security issues and MichaelM gives some interesting philosophical insights into securing SQL databases - it's not just the data! We also cover security news from Managed Hardware Security Module (MSH), App Config, Sentinel, Machine Learning, Azure Security Center and much more.

This episode is a little different; no news! Michael talks with Yuri Diogenes and Sarah about the various Azure Security certifications, and Sarah and Yuri talk about their upcoming study guide for SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst.

In this episode Michael, Sarah, Gladys and Mark talk with guest Carmichael Patton, a Senior Security Architect in the Digital Security and Resiliency group at Microsoft about Microsoft's journey to Zero Trust and some of the lessons learned along the way.We also discuss Azure Security news about: Azure Sentinel, Azure Automation, Azure SQL DB and Always Encrypted withe Secure Enclaves, App Insights, App Service and Functions, Azure Active Directory, Azure Firewall, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Security Center, Azure Bastion. Mark also talks about some Open Group actitivites and recent Microsoft security acquisitions.

In this episode Michael, Sarah, Gladys and Mark talk with guest Rin Ure about the Azure Sentinel SOC Process Framework Workbook. We also discuss Azure Security news about Azure Web Application Firewall, Azure Front Door, Azure SQL DB, Azure Sphere, Confidential Compute VMs and episode 2 of the Spanish Azure Security Podcast is now out.

In this episode we talk to Nicholas DiCola about automating security tasks in Azure. We also cover security news about Azure Monitor, Confidential Computing, Azure Key Vault, Visual Studio Code, Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and IoT, and more. Make a point of listening to Mark's comments about the state of Human-operated Ransomware.

In this episode we interview Pete Bryan from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center - MSTIC - about lessons learned from the recent highly-public nation-state attacks on US infrastructure. We also cover news about GitHub, CosmosDB, Storage account key rotation, Azure Functions, SimuLand, Gladys also announces that there is now a Spanish edition of the Azure Security Podcast.

In this episode Michael, Sarah, Gladys and Mark talk with Minni Walia about Azure Data Explorer, a fast and highly scalable data exploration service for log and telemetry data. We also discuss Azure Security news about Bicep, VPN Gateway, Azure Backup, Azure Security Center, AKS, Azure Sentinel, IoT Hub, API Management, SimuLand and Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures and Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework.