The Azure Security Podcast

Apr 01 2025 109 ep. 36 mins 413
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A twice-monthly podcast dedicated to all things relating to Security, Privacy, Compliance and Reliability on the Microsoft Cloud Platform. Hosted by Microsoft security experts, Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriguez and Mark Simos. https://aka.ms/azsecpod ©2020-2025 Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriquez, and Mark Simos.

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Episode 110: Securing GenAI Applications with Entra (3 of 4): Monitoring and More

Apr 01 2025 40 mins  
In this episode Michael and Gladys talk to Sharon Chahal who is a Principal Program Manager in the Identity team at Microsoft about monitoring and auditing when building GenAI applications. We also cover other related topics.Michael and Gladys cover the latest security news about API Security Posture Management, Azure Key Vault in China, Azure Data Studio retirement, new least priv

Episode 109: Securing GenAI Applications with Entra (2 of 4) - Overpermissioning

Feb 18 2025 37 mins  
In this episode, Michael, Gladys and Mark talk to guest Bailey Bercik about the problem of overpermissioning and how to use Microsoft Entra Permissions Management to identify and manage over-permissioned identities in multi-cloud environments to reduce security risks, especially for AI apps.We also cover the latest security news about AI red teaming, Azure SQL DB logging, Azure Con

Episode 108: Securing GenAI Applications with Entra

Jan 20 2025 22 mins  
In this episode Michael, Gladys, Mark and Sarah talk to guest Diana Vicezar from the Microsoft Entra team about security Generative AI applications. Note, this is a short, simple intro episode to introduce three follow-on episodes. We also cover security news about TLS 1.3 and Azure Event Grid, big updates to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Database for MySQL, SQL Managed Insta

Episode 107: Secure by default and Copilot Overshare Blueprints

Jan 06 2025 37 mins  
Happy New Year!In this episode Michael, Sarah and Mark talk to Maxime Bombardier and Emily Blundo about the Secure by default and Copilot overshare blueprints. We also cover news about Always Encrypted Assessment in SQL Server Management Studio, MVP Summit, mapping Entra to the Open Group standard for Adaptive Access, and various CISO Workshop topics!https://aka.ms/azsecpod

Episode 106: Microsoft Ignite Security Wrap-up

Dec 10 2024 44 mins  
In this episode, Michael, Mark, and Sarah go over what they found interesting from Microsoft Ignite. Mark has a discount code for his Zero Trust Book, too.https://aka.ms/aszecpod

Episode 105: Azure and Entra ID Security Tools

Nov 22 2024 36 mins  
In this episode, Michael, Sarah, and Mark talk to Merill Fernando about a set of open source tools he and his team have developed to help people understand their Azure and Entra ID security postures.We also cover news about Fabric, TLS 1.o and 1,1 retirement, Microsoft Ignite, FIDO2, Confidential Containers and Red Hat OpenShift and various Zero Trust news.https://aka.ms/azsecpod

Episode 104: The Post Bluehat Wrap-up

Nov 08 2024 37 mins  
In this episode, Michael talks to Nic Fillingham about the recent Microsoft Bluehat Security conference held at the Microsoft HQ in Redmond, WA. We also discuss how to tell the NZ and Australian accents apart. This alone is worth listening to :)This is a follow-on from episode 103 when we talked about what was coming up for Bluehat.No news, as this is a special, smaller episode. It

Episode 103: Security Conferences and Bluehat

Oct 17 2024 48 mins  
In this episode we speak to Nic Fillingham who is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft about security conferences and mainly about the Microsoft Bluehat conference he runs. We also discuss security about PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, IP address management, containers and AI Studio. https://aka.ms/azsecpod

Episode 102: Entra ID Purple-teaming with Dr Azure AD

Oct 07 2024 36 mins  
In this episode Michael and Sarah talk to Nestori Syynimaa about Entra ID security and his purple-team tool, AADInternals. We also cover the latest security news about Secure Future Initiative (SFI), MFA for Azure Portal, Playright, WordPress, NSG, Bastion, Azure Functions, MS Ignite, App Service, Defender for Cloud, Containers, Azure Monitor, AKS, Trustworthy AI and Azure AI Conte

Episode 101: The GHOST Threat Hunting Team

Sep 20 2024 22 mins  
In this episode Michael, Mark and Sarah talk to Matt Zorich and Waymon Ho of the Microsoft GHOST team. We discuss the role GHOST plays in protecting both Microsoft and our customers from nation-state threat actors. We also cover the latest security news about Event Grid, NetApp Files, Chaos Studio and AKS. https://aka.ms/azsecpod