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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In this episode Michael talks with guest Ran Munsch, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft about Security Copilot and Security Copilot Agents.

We also discuss Azure Security news about System.Data.SqlClient, April 2025 Secue Future Initiative progress report, Azure Database for PosrgreSQL, Azure DevTest Labs, VNets, Front Door WAF CAPTCHA, API management and more.

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In this episode Michael and Sarah talk with guest Amanda Minnich about securing agentic AI systems, the security challenges they face, and how to secure them.

We also discuss Azure Security news about Azure File Sync, Docker support in Azure and a new series of Secure Future Initiative videos with appearances from Michael, Sarah, and various guests.

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 privilege permissions in Graph and more.

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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 Confidential Ledger, Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign and CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model.

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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 Instance and Confidential Ledger.

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!

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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.

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