In this episode Michael, Sarah and Mark discuss security-related topics from the recent Microsoft Ignite 2025 event. Lots of AI-related security topics, including using AI for security and defending AI systems. Bitlocker, Windows and so much more!

This is the last episode of 2025! It was a blast, and thanks for listening! We hope you find this material useful!

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See you in 2026!

In this episode Michael and Sarah talk with co-host Mark Simos about new security standards documentation from the Open Group. It's a long episode but worth it!

We also discuss Azure Security news about Private Endpoints, Azure Front Door, Azure WAF CAPTCHA, Azure Sphere, Private Link Service Direct Connect, Azure Integrated HSM, Azure Firewall pre-scaling and observed capacity metric, and Microsoft Ignite.

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In this episode Michael talks with guest Merill Fernando about the Zero Trust Workshop, but we also spend time talking about all things identity! Merill's final thought is pure gold, too!

The only bit of news is about Azure SQL DB and how TDE key management during restore,

In this episode Michael, Sarah and Mark talk with guest Ryen Macababbad, Principal Security Program Manager at Microsoft about her current work on standardizing security terminology and taxonomy across Microsoft.

Also, how getting terminology right is important to security, especially for those with neurodiverse conditions, such as autism.

We also discuss Azure Security news about the Microsoft AI tour Sarah is doing, Cosmos DB, and Michael goes on a rant about TLS certificate checking.

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In this episode Michael and Mark talk with guest Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow, Deputy CISO and Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure about quantum cryptography and quantum computing and its implications for security and the future.

NOTE: There's a portion where Mark and Michael talk about a quote made by Richard Feynman about understanding technical topics, but this is actually attributed to Albert Einstein. However, there is no definitive record of Einstein writing or saying this exact phrase in his published works or speeches.

We decided to not cover any Azure Security news in this episode.

In this episode Michael and Sarah talk to Russ Rogers from the Xbox team about gaming security in general and Xbox specifically. This is the first time we have covered the topic! There is also so much news, we really list all the announcements here! It's about 9 mins of security news!

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In this episode Michael, Sarah and Mark talk to Mark Kendrick about Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake. We also cover news about The Open Group - Roles and Glossary standards, Security Adoption Module 5 - Data Security, Microsoft Azure Cloud HSM, WAF and Containers, PostgreSQL and PowerBI, Azure Managed Lustre, and more. Also, Sarah mentions some Developer Security YouTube videos coming out from MS Build!

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In this episode, Michael, Sarah and Mark talk to Den Delimarksy about the current posture of Model Context Protocol. Den serves on the committee that oversees MCP.

We also cover the latest security news about Azure Firewall, OpenTelemetry, Azure Front Door, Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Kubernetes Service.

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In this episode, Michael talks to Pieter Vanhove and Pratim Dasgupta about the new security changes in SQL Server 2025.

The news includes updates on MCP, Private Link and Microsoft Build 2025 security sessions presented by Michael and Sarah.

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In this episode, Michael, Sarah, and Mark talk to Craig Nelson, VP of the Microsoft Red Team about how the Red Team works to help secure Microsoft and its customers.

In life, there are things you know you know, things you know you don't know, and finally, things you don't know you don't know. This episode is full of the latter.

We also cover security news about LLMs and MCP, TLS 1.1 and 1.0 deprecation, Private End Point Improvements, Containers and more.

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