The Azure Security Podcast
A twice-monthly podcast dedicated to all things relating to Security, Privacy, Compliance and Reliability on the Microsoft Cloud Platform. Hosted by Microsoft security experts, Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriguez and Mark Simos. https://aka.ms/azsecpod ©2020-2025 Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriquez, and Mark Simos.
Episodes
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...
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, t...
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!
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!
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 camp...
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!
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.
In this episode, Michael, Sarah, and Mark talk to Merill Fernando about a set of open source tools he and his team have developed to help people understand their Azure and Entra ID security postures.
We also cover news about Fabric, TLS 1.o and 1,1 retirement, Microsoft Ignite, FIDO2, Confidential Containers and Red Hat OpenShift and various Zero Trust news.
In this episode, Michael talks to Nic Fillingham about the recent Microsoft Bluehat Security conference held at the Microsoft HQ in Redmond, WA. We also discuss how to tell the NZ and Australian accents apart. This alone is worth listening to :)
This is a follow-on from episode 103 when we talked about what was coming up for Bluehat.
No news, as this is a special, smaller episode. It's also the least edited; other than some ums and e...
In this episode we speak to Nic Fillingham who is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft about security conferences and mainly about the Microsoft Bluehat conference he runs.
We also discuss security about PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, IP address management, containers and AI Studio.
In this episode Michael and Sarah talk to Nestori Syynimaa about Entra ID security and his purple-team tool, AADInternals.
We also cover the latest security news about Secure Future Initiative (SFI), MFA for Azure Portal, Playright, WordPress, NSG, Bastion, Azure Functions, MS Ignite, App Service, Defender for Cloud, Containers, Azure Monitor, AKS, Trustworthy AI and Azure AI Content Safety.
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In this episode Michael, Mark and Sarah talk to Matt Zorich and Waymon Ho of the Microsoft GHOST team. We discuss the role GHOST plays in protecting both Microsoft and our customers from nation-state threat actors.
We also cover the latest security news about Event Grid, NetApp Files, Chaos Studio and AKS.
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