In Episode 181, Ben and Scott go deeper into Azure Sentinel, discussing considerations for the design and segmentation of your Sentinel workspaces.

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- [Ben] Welcome to episode 181 of the Microsoft Cloud IT pro podcast recorded live on June 5, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of IT pros and end users where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Scott and Ben take a little bit deeper dive into Azure Sentinel and what you can do with it. And here we are, Scott. A Friday, but not just any Friday. This Friday is unique from all other Fridays.

- [Scott] It is, is it?

- [Ben] Every Friday is unique technically, right? Every Friday is not like the other. One of these things is not on, no don't get me started.

- [Scott] No, stop the madness. No, this is your last day, which means we may have to update our intro. We need to talk about that but why might we have to intro, update our intro, Scott?

- [Scott] I am going to go out into the wider world and live one of my adult dreams. I'm gonna become a blue badge.

- [Ben] Look at you.

- [Scott] Look at me.

- [Ben] You are moving up. You are leaving me. No, you're not leaving me. We're gonna still keep doing the podcast, you're just changing jobs, which is exciting. I know I've talked to a bunch and this is something you have been trying for wanting to do for a long time. So it's exciting for me to be excited for you because I do know how excited you have been to do this.

- [Scott] Yeah, I think it will be very interesting. So I'm gonna be living in a little bit of a different life. I am joining the Azure storage product team as a product manager within a Cogs group. So I'll primarily be working with customers around Azure blob storage, which storage is kinda the backbone of, just about everything that you do in the cloud. At the end of the day, if you think about Azure, it's really a bunch of compute. It's a big hypervisor and then stuff that's running in storage, which tends to be blobs, that could be virtual machine disks, could be something you upload for a workload, could be like data lakes all run in blob storage, things like that. So I think it'd be very exciting to be a little bit closer to kinda the core and backend of everything that drives Azure.

- [Ben] Got it, very cool. You are gonna be focused then explicitly on just blob storage because storage has all those other things like you have your blobs and your Azure file shares and all of those that function differently and do different things and you are not Azure storage but you are Azure blob storage.

- [Scott] That's my understanding of it. I'll let you know more as it evolves.

- [Bob] As it develops when you start here in a few more days.

- [Scott] Yes.

- [Bob] So you already, how was starting a new job in this world of quarantine?

- [Scott] It's very interesting. I think like lots of employers, Microsoft isn't probably too unique in trying to figure out how to onboard employees remotely. I remember when I was a virtual TSP, when back when they used to have like purple badges at Microsoft and your badge came with, your picture and all those things, just usually a normal bad but also your clients certificate for CACing into things. And you weren't allowed to just say, "Hi, I'm Scott" and somebody would send you a badge with a CAC and they'd give you your password in plain text over email and you go like, "Ooh, look at me, I'm on the network." There was a little bit more, a little bit more involved with that. You had to go to a Microsoft location and see somebody in person. So there's certainly things like that. I think it's even interesting for hiring practices like in the United States, you have to prove that you're eligible to work in the United States.