This week, Michael, Mark and Gladys talk to Anthony Shaw about some of the best practices and tooling for securing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions. Sarah is away in Singapore, presenting at BlackHat.We also cover security news about DDoS, Cosmos DB, Microsoft Defender for APIs, Load Balancer, Zero Trust and discovering Internet-facing devices ..read more

In this episode Michael, Sarah, Gladys, and Mark talk with a good friend of the Podcast, Yuri Diogenes, about the latest Microsoft Defender for Cloud news.We also discuss Azure Security news about Trusted VM Launch, Chaos Studio, Azure SQL DB, DDoS protection, Confidential Containers, Firewall and more ..read more

In this episode Michael and Gladys talk with guests Sean Wesonga and Bojan Magusic about using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. We also discuss Azure Security news about new Azure SQL Database migration abilities for authentication and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE ..read more

In this episode Michael, Sarah, Gladys and Mark interview each other! The Podcast is almost three years old, and things have changed for each of us, so we thought we'd re-introduce ourselves, reflect, give career advice, and talk about what's top of mind for each of us! We also discuss Azure Security news about SQL Server and Azure SQL DB, MFA and AAD, AAD and IPv6, new SC-100 study guide and more ..read more

In this special episode, Michael sits down with Pieter Vanhove about a new addition to the SQL Server 'Always Encrypted' family. The new addition, Virtualization-Based Security Enclaves (VBS), is now in Preview and allows for more scalability and lower cost when using secure enclaves compared to the current SGX-based enclaves ..read more

In this episode Michael and Sarah talk with guests Beau Faull and Lou Mercuri about some new features and updated naming in Microsoft Purview. Beau and Lou are also co-hosts of the Coast2Coast Podcast on YouTube. We also discuss Azure Security news about Trusted Boot VMs, Sentinel and Defender for Cloud ..read more

In this episode, Michael and Mark talk to Adrian Diglio about Software Bill of Materials and its role in helping secure the software supply chain. We also have news items about SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL and Application Secure Groups and Private Endpoints. Mark goes over MCRA, Immutable Laws of Cybersecurity and Security Architecture Design ..read more

Michael sits down with Ajay Jagannathan who is the Principal Group PM Manager for SQL Server. Michael also covers a couple of SQL Server related news items ..read more

Michael and Sarah talk to Bronwyn Mercer from Microsoft Australia about Privileged Access as well as some ideas and processes to help you succeed. Also, the latest security news about Managed HSM, Defender for DevOps, TLS and ARM, SQL Server 2022, Application Gateway. Finally, 'Designing and Developing Secure Azure Solutions' is now available. https://azsec.tech/get ..read more

In this episode Michael, Sarah and Mark talk with guest Joey Snow about Workload Identities in Azure. We also chat about least privilege and privileged accounts in general. Finally, the latest Azure Security news about: Azure Front Door, Log Analytics, Web Application Firewall and AKS SSH keys ..read more