Let's Talk Azure!

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Key vault can help secure your certificates, keys, and secrets. Alan goes though the types of vaults you can use and how you can secure the access to the secrets. They also cover the various uses for key vault within azure services and application development.

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Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Stack solutions can help bring the capabilities of Azure management plane to your on-premises and edge environments. Sam goes through the three solutions, what their capabilities are and example use cases / workloads.

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Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) can be used to protect users from phishing attacks. Alan will go through all the security benefits, as well some of the education training features included in MDO. We will discuss how this tie into the Microsoft 365 Defender portal and XDR.

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Alan and Sam discuss how Confidential Computing can be used to add additional zero trust principle layers to workloads running in Azure. Confidential Computing gives administrators multiple levels to layers of confidentiality in Azure. Sam takes us through what can be achieved and the impact this can have within your organisation.

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Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft’s Privileged Identity Management (PIM) can be used to improve your identity Security. PIM gives the ability to provide just-in-time access to management roles in Azure AD and Azure. Alan also goes into detail around the user experience and how PIM can be extended outside of the Microsoft Cloud.

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Alan and Sam explain 15 ways that you can save costs in Azure…. ssh…. don’t tell Microsoft! If you have workloads in Azure, we hope that you will find some ideas that will enable you to save some money, who doesn’t love doing the same for less?

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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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Alan and Sam discuss how Azure MFA can be used to improve you security posture. MFA is ubiquitous in 2023, however utilizing MFA in a secure and user first experience can be challenging. In this episode we aim to give you the knowledge and experience we have gained working on many MFA related projects over the years.

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Alan and Sam discuss how Season 2 has gone. They discuss their best episodes, the podcast stats and what the plans are for Season 3 in the new year.

We would like to say thank all their listeners of this season and look forward to providing content in the next season.

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Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft XDR and why it is now becoming a requirement in organisations. They both take the role of the 'Expert' and explains what XDR is, how it helps reduce security risk.

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