Season 2

Nov. 25, 2022

S2E21 - Season Finale! - End of Season Recap

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 …

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Nov. 18, 2022

S2E20 - Microsoft XDR – Create a Holistic View of Your Environment

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. What did you think of …

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Nov. 11, 2022

S2E19 - Microsoft Power Platform – Power to the Users

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Power Platform and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily build internal apps, automate process, and present data us...

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Nov. 4, 2022

S2E18 - Microsoft Defender for IoT – Discover and protect your IoT De…

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Defender for IoT and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation to reduce cyber risk. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily discover your device exposure …

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Oct. 28, 2022

S2E17 - Microsoft Sentinel - Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR capabilities

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Sentinel can help organisations have visibility of malicious activity in their environment. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the capability of Microsoft Sentinel and how it i...

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Oct. 21, 2022

S2E16 - Microsoft Ignite 2022 - The In-Person Experience

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Ignite 2022, the announcements and how the in-person experience vs remote was. Sam quizzes Alan on his experience in Seattle and ignite. Link to the Ignite 2022 Book of News - Here What did you …

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Oct. 14, 2022

S2E15 - Azure Sphere – Securing IoT Devices from Silicon to Cloud

Alan and Sam discuss Azure Sphere, it's features and the security and operational value it can bring to your IoT estate. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his experience with the Azure Sphere Development Kit. Wh...

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Oct. 7, 2022

S2E14 - Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft's Threat Vulnerability Management and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation to reduce cyber risk. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily discover your devi...

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Sept. 30, 2022

S2E13 - Architecting Serverless Applications in Azure/O365

Alan and Sam discuss how server applications in Azure can help you to more efficiently build applications for your business in a different way to traditional application development. We both take the role of the 'Expert' and ...

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Sept. 23, 2022

S2E12 - Microsoft Purview Information Protection – Classify and Secur…

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Purview Information Protection can help label, classify and protect your data in Office 365 . Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily start labelling document, as...

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Sept. 16, 2022

S2E11 - Microsoft Purview Data Governance Portal

Alan and Sam discuss how the Microsoft Purview – Data Governance Portal can help you to manage and govern your organisations data. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the 'Train the Trainer' event that he particip...

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Sept. 9, 2022

S2E10 - Microsoft Entra – Azure AD – Identity Governance

Alan and Sam discuss how Identity Governance within Azure AD, part of Microsoft's Entra family of identity products can help with your user lifecycle. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how Entitlement Managemen...

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Sept. 2, 2022

S2E9 - Microsoft Entra Permission Management - First Look

Alan and Sam take a first look at Microsoft Entra permissions management. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how the product allows you to discover and remediate permissions creep in your multi-cloud environments...

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Aug. 26, 2022

S2E8 - Securing Multi-Cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for …

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Cloud can help Secure your multi-cloud environments. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily gain visibility of your multi-cloud environment and how ...

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Aug. 19, 2022

S2E7 - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Alan and Sam take a look at The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his experience with the Cloud Adoption framework and highlights the reasoning about considering using the fra...

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Aug. 12, 2022

S2E6 - Microsoft Entra – Securing and Managing Cloud Identities

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure AD, part of the Microsoft Entra family can secure your identity in the cloud. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why we should consider the …

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Aug. 5, 2022

S2E5 - Managing Compliance with Azure Policy

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 co...

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July 29, 2022

S2E4 - Modern Device Management with Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) can simplify device management whilst making it easy to secure them. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why we should ad...

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July 22, 2022

S2E3 - Terraform - Deploy your Infrastructure as Code

Alan and Sam discuss Terraform, a popular choice in the Infrastructure as Code space. Sam takes the role of 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why we should be utilising Terraform in our organisation and r...

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July 15, 2022

S2E2 - Microsoft Entra - First Look

Alan and Sam discuss all things Entra, a 'new' product offering by Microsoft. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his initial viewpoint of the product and why we should all be excited about this new product famil...

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July 4, 2022

S2E1 - Aaaaaaaand We're Back!

In this episode, Alan and Sam discuss the Podcast, what's happened and what we are planning over the next season. Also with a big a apology that we have been absent for over a year. What did you think of …

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