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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

This week we discussed Microsoft Dev Box. Dev Box allows development teams to create development environments for their projects in the cloud. This enables development teams to utilise infrastructure in Azure that scales past their local machines to build effectively. Microsoft provides the infrastructure and management plane, developers and platform engineers can work together to build repeatable environments bespoke to each project to give developers the tool they need. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What Microsoft Dev Box is and why teams may want to consider it How Dev Boxes are configured and deployed How developers can access Dev Boxes How Dev Boxes are managed and monitored Costs 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 Zero-Touch deployments can help organisation reduce the effort needed to build devices. Alan goes through some of the scenarios and the benefits. Here are a few things we covered: What are zero-touch deployments What are the business and it department benefits What is supported in Microsoft Intune How easy is it to get started? 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. Update: A listener pointed out that you can now manually add iOS devices onto ABM via a Mac and iPhone https://support.apple.com/sv-se/guide/apple-configurator/welcome/iosRead transcript

This week we discussed Azure Automation. Azure automations allows you develop processes in PowerShell and Python and deploy this content to Azure to manage and orchestrate. Azure automations can run in Azure or other non Azure resources. Highly connected and flexible, Azure automation provides a great amount of value for organisations to use automation to boost productivity and reduce repeatable tasks being carried out manually. Sam takes the lead with providing insights such as: What automation is and why it’s important for organisations. How Azure Automation can help. How it develop and deploy automations. Integrations and networking Costs 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 passwordless authentication can help organisations to improve their authentication health and increase their security posture. Alan explains the concept and the solutions available. Alan also covers the rebrand of Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID. Some of the areas we cover: What is passwordless authentication. What are the benefits of introducing passwordless to your organisation. What does Microsoft Entra ID provide for passwordless authentication. 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