Microsoft Azure adoption with cybersecurity first principle strategies.

The cloud revolution is here. How well can we implement our first principle strategies within each environment? Do we need to embrace other security platforms to get it done? In this session, Rick discusses Microsoft Azure through the lens of first principle thinking. He reviews how Azure supports, or doesn’t support, strategies of resilience, zero trust, intrusion kill chains, and risk assessments.

Cybersecurity professional development and continued education.

You will learn about: Microsoft Azure services and security tools, infrastructure as code, Azure strategies that support cybersecurity first principles

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Selected Reading:

S1E1: 6 APR: Your Security Stack is Moving: SASE is Coming.
S1E9: 01 JUN: Cybersecurity first principles - resilience
S2E7: 31 AUG: Identity Management: a first principle idea.
S2E8: 07 SEP: Identity Management: around the Hash Table.
S3E3: 02 NOV: Securing containers and serverless functions.
S3E4: 09 NOV: Securing containers and serverless functions: around the Hash Table.
S3E5: 16 NOV: SOAR: a first principle idea.
S3E6: 23 NOV: SOAR: around the Hash Table.

“About: History,” Cloud Security Alliance.
“A Brief History of AWS,” by Alec Rojasm, Media Temple, 31 August 2017.
“A Look Back At Ten Years Of Microsoft Azure,” by Janakiram, Forbes, 3 February 2020.
“An Annotated History of Google’s Cloud Platform,” by Reto Meier, Medium, 10 February 2017.
“Azure AD Overview,” John Savill, YouTube, 2020.
“Azure Virtual Network FAQ,” KumudD, Microsoft.com, 26 June 2020.
“Azure Virtual Network Overview,” by John Savill, YouTube, 4 February 2020.
“Matrices: Cloud Matrix,” by Mitre ATT&CK.
“Microsoft Azure: Security.” by Microsoft.
“Thinking about Resiliency in Azure,” John Savill, YouTube Video, June 2019.
“Zero Trust Deployment Center,” Gary Centric, Microsoft.com, 30 September 2020.

HOST(S):

Rick Howard is the CSO of N2K and the Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the N2K Cyber, formerly CyberWire. His past lives include CSO at Palo Alto Networks, CISO at TASC, the GM at Verisign/iDefense, the Counterpane SOC Director, and the Commander of the Army's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). Rick served 25 years in the Army, taught computer science at West Point, edited two books and just published his own book, "Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics" and he is regularly joined at the N2K Cyber's Hash Table by a collection of industry experts.

Schedule: Mondays (in season)

Credits: Edited by John Petrik and executive produced by Peter Kilpe. Our theme song is by Blue Dot Sessions, remixed by the insanely talented Elliott Peltzman, who also does the show's mixing, sound, and original score

Creator: CyberWire, Inc.