
Let's Talk Azure!
Listen with Alan Armstrong and Sam Foot as we talk about all things Microsoft Azure!
We are both technical consultants working with Azure day in, day out. Alan focuses on Identity and Security automation while Sam is a .NET developer deploying PaaS and SaaS solutions on Azure.
Each episode we have a topic we cover and we highlight some key news that we are interested in. No fluff, sales or products here, just two technical people having a light hearted chat.
Latest episodes

Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 8min
S2E17 - Microsoft Sentinel - Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR capabilities
Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Sentinel can help organisations have visibility of malicious activity in their environment. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the capability of Microsoft Sentinel and how it is for any size organisation. Alan dives into the process from log ingestion to automated response to an incident.
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Oct 21, 2022 • 56min
S2E16 - Microsoft Ignite 2022 - The In-Person Experience
Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Ignite 2022, the announcements and how the in-person experience vs remote was. Sam quizzes Alan on his experience in Seattle and ignite.
Link to the Ignite 2022 Book of News - Here
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Oct 14, 2022 • 51min
S2E15 - Azure Sphere – Securing IoT Devices from Silicon to Cloud
Alan and Sam discuss Azure Sphere, it's features and the security and operational value it can bring to your IoT estate. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his experience with the Azure Sphere Development Kit.
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Oct 7, 2022 • 46min
S2E14 - Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft's Threat Vulnerability Management and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation to reduce cyber risk. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily discover your device exposure risk and start to prioritise remediations.
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Sep 30, 2022 • 1h 5min
S2E13 - Architecting Serverless Applications in Azure/O365
Alan and Sam discuss how server applications in Azure can help you to more efficiently build applications for your business in a different way to traditional application development. We both take the role of the 'Expert' and give our experiences using these technologies to build applications for our customers.
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Sep 23, 2022 • 0sec
S2E12 - Microsoft Purview Information Protection – Classify and Secure Your data
Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Purview Information Protection can help label, classify and protect your data in Office 365 . Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily start labelling document, as well as encrypt them to protect data leaving your organisation.
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Sep 16, 2022 • 1h 6min
S2E11 - Microsoft Purview Data Governance Portal
Alan and Sam discuss how the Microsoft Purview – Data Governance Portal can help you to manage and govern your organisations data. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the 'Train the Trainer' event that he participated in with Microsoft and gives an overview of the product.
Link to the Microsoft Purview Workshop: https://github.com/tayganr/purviewlab
Many thanks to the team at Microsoft for their time to take us through the workshop and give get guidance to all participants.
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Sep 9, 2022 • 39min
S2E10 - Microsoft Entra – Azure AD – Identity Governance
Alan and Sam discuss how Identity Governance within Azure AD, part of Microsoft's Entra family of identity products can help with your user lifecycle. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how Entitlement Management, Access Reviews and Privileged Access can secure, review, and give access.
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Sep 2, 2022 • 45min
S2E9 - Microsoft Entra Permission Management - First Look
Alan and Sam take a first look at Microsoft Entra permissions management. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how the product allows you to discover and remediate permissions creep in your multi-cloud environments.
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Aug 26, 2022 • 51min
S2E8 - Securing Multi-Cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Alan and Sam discuss securing multi-cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, focusing on visibility, protection workloads, remediation tasks, and cost-saving strategies. They explore the evolution of Defender for Cloud, protective workloads in cloud security, and permissions management in multi-cloud environments under the Entra brand.