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S6E16 - Monitor and Protect Generative AI services using Microsoft Tooling Jun 20, 2025

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Alan and Sam discuss the topic of Generative AI usage and it should be monitored by organisations. Alan talks about some of the Microsoft tooling that can help monitor these services and protect data being consumed.

The importance of monitoring Generative AI usage.
How Microsoft tooling can help monitor and protect Gen AI usage

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S6E8 - Mapping the Threatscape: Security Explorer & Attack Paths in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Mar 21, 2025

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In this episode, we dive into two great features of Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Security Explorer and Attack Paths. Join us as we unpack how these tools leverage the Cloud Security Graph to help you hunt down risks, map potential attack routes, and prioritize your cloud security efforts like never before. Whether you’re managing Azure, AWS, or a hybrid setup, this episode is packed with insights to level up your defense strategy.

What You’ll Learn:

How the Cloud Security Graph provides a unified view of your multicloud environment.
Using Security Explorer to proactively identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations with custom queries.
Visualizing Attack Paths to see how attackers could move from an entry point to your critical assets.
Practical tips for prioritizing fixes and boosting your Secure Score.
Real-world examples of these tools in action and how to get started today.

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S5E31 - Microsoft Security Exposure Management Aug 30, 2024

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Alan and Sam dive into Microsoft's Security Exposure Management platform. Alan takes us through the various components and the benefits on using this platform. Here are a few things we covered:

What is Microsoft Security Exposure Management?
What components make up the platform?
Who benefits from the platform?
What integrations does the platform have?

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S5E26 - Microsoft's Unified Security Operations Platform Jul 26, 2024

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Alan and Sam dive into Microsoft's Unified Security Operations Platform and how it can benefit SOC analysts in their day to day. Here are a few things we covered:

What is a Security Operations Centre (SOC)?
What is the new Microsoft Unified Security Operations Platform?
What are the benefits of the new platform?

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S4E17 - Cosmos DB - a fully managed NoSQL and relational database for modern app development Oct 06, 2023

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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

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S4E4 - Understand your Cloud Security Posture using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Jul 07, 2023

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Alan and Sam discuss why it is important to have a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution in place. Alan explains the benefits of CSPM, and dives into Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Topics that we covered are:

What is Cloud Security Posture Management and why it is important
What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s approach to CSPM
What is the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark
What are the pricing tiers for CSPM

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S3E20 - Windows 365 vs Azure Virtual Desktop, how do you decide? May 19, 2023

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Alan and Sam discuss the difference between Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Alan goes through what to consider when choosing which technology to use for different scenarios.

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S3E13 - Azure Static Web Apps - Rapidly deploy globally hosted static & serverless web applications Mar 31, 2023

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Alan and Sam discuss Azure static Web applications. Part of Azure App Service, static web apps allows developers to deploy static web applications in conjunction with serverless function applications with modern development tooling and hosting support. We discuss the key features and benefits that Azure Static Web apps brings.

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S3E2 - Azure Virtual Desktop - Providing access to applications and desktops anywhere. Jan 13, 2023

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Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) can be used provide application and virtual desktops from anywhere. Alan discusses how AVD works, the benefits to organisations, management and the cost. He discuss how you the solution can be deployed via Code and why you should check it out.

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S2E5 - Managing Compliance with Azure Policy Aug 05, 2022

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Alan and Sam discuss all things Azure Policy, a way to manage Azure compliance at scale. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product/tooling and why it can help organisations to track their compliance level and enforce policies in Azure.

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