Let's Talk Azure!

This week we discussed Azure DDoS protection, a managed service from Microsoft in Azure to mitigate against DDoS attacks. DDoS or distributed-denial-of-service attacks are commonly used to overwhelm internet facing resources in the hope of disrupting their operation. Azure DDoS protection is a simple to use managed service which allows organisations to rapidly apply protection to their resources. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What are DDoS attacks, and why do we need to mitigate them? What is Azure DDoS protection How do you set up Azure DDoS protection Pricing What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Entra External ID can help organisations collaborate and provide identity to their services. Alan goes through the B2B and B2C options and their scenarios. Here are a few things we covered: What are B2B and B2C identities How are these identities used What is an Microsoft Entra Multi-tenant organisation How is Microsoft Entra External ID licenced What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

This week we discussed Cosmos DB, a No SQL and relational database system hosted and managed by Microsoft. Cosmos DB is a cloud first service from Microsoft on Azure. It’s a modern approach to a database management system, built to achieve global scale and high availability. There are many APIs to pick from: NoSQL MongoDB PostgreSQL Apache Cassandra Apache Gremlin Table Storage Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What is Cosmos DB and how it’s different to other database management systems What APIs are supported, and how do you decide? Operational considerations of Cosmos DB What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Intune can help manage your Windows 10/11 estate from anywhere that has an internet connection. Alan goes through the capabilities and how it can help organisations. Here are a few things we covered: How has Windows endpoints traditionally been managed? What is Intune? How can Modern management help an organisation? What is the process to move to Intune to manage your Windows 10/11 endpoints? How is Intune licenced? What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

This week we discussed Purview Insider Risk Management. Insider Risk Management is a compliance solution that enables organisations to discover, track and manage insider risk. Insider risks can be introduced to an organisation in a multitude of ways, understanding and correlating these activities is complex and needs to be automated, this is where Insider Risk Management shines. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What are insider risks and why organisations manage these risks What is insider risk management Which systems can monitored How insider risk management allows organisations to take actions on identified risks What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Identity monitors and detects unusual behavior's and attacks on Active Directory: Here are a few things we covered: What is Active Directory Why do we need to monitor authentication on-premises What is Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) How is MDI licenced How do you deploy MDI What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

This week we discussed Azure Lighthouse. Lighthouse allow organisations and partners access and manage resources and services in multiple tenants at scale. Lighthouse allows management of access, provides a simplified control plane to reduce operation burden allow your organisation to better collaborate internally at scale over multiple tenants or partners to manage and collaborate multiple customers securely and simply. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: How multi-tenant management is used How are organisation using Lighthouse internally How partners use Lighthouse with their customers What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps can help monitor and secure access to your SaaS applications. Here are a few things we covered: What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps How do we discover shadow IT? How to monitor activity and files in SaaS Apps What is App Governance How can we secure sessions to SaaS applications How is it licenced. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

This week we discussed Azure Chaos Studio. Chaos Studio allows organisations to run test plans to introduce chaos. Learn how your applications and infrastructure are effected by infrastructure disruption without having to wait for actual disruption. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What is Chaos Engineering, and why it may be beneficial to your organisation What is Azure Chaos studio and What operations are supported with Chaos Studio In what scenarios you would use Chaos studio What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Entra ID Global Secure Access. A feature that was announced with the rebrand of Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID. Here are a few things we covered: What is Microsoft Entra Internet Access What is Microsoft Entra Private Access How do these features help secure access to the internet and to SaaS and internal applications? Do we know how it is licenced yet? How to add MFA and conditional access to legacy applications and protocols that are unable to support it. What did you think of this episode? Give us some feedback via our contact form, Or leave us a voice message in the bottom right corner of our site.Read transcript