The Azure Security Podcast

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.

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!

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'

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.