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 and the Hash Table review Microsoft Azure through the lens of first principle thinking. They review how Azure supports, or doesn’t support, strategies of resilience, zero trust, intrusion kill chains, and risk assessments. The Hash Table gives their detailed technical experiences and strategies using Azure to support cybersecurity.

Two members of the CyberWire’s Hash Table of experts - Rick Doten, Carolina Complete Health CISO and Mark Simos, Microsoft’s Lead Cybersecurity Architect - discuss Microsoft Azure security through a first principle lens. Can Azure deployments satisfy our requirements for zero trust, intrusion kill chain prevention, resilience, and risk assessment?

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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Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program.

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Selected Reading:

S1E9: 01 JUN: Cybersecurity first principles – resilience.
“A Look Back At Ten Years Of Microsoft Azure,” by Janakiram, Forbes, 3 February 2020.
“Azure AD Overview,” by John Savill, YouTube, 2020.
“Azure Security Benchmark,” msmbaldwin, Microsoft.com, 2021.
“Azure Virtual Network FAQ,” KumudD, Microsoft.com, 26 June 2020.
“Azure Virtual Network Overview,” by John Savill, YouTube, 4 February 2020.
“Microsoft Azure: Security,” Microsoft.
“Microsoft: How 'zero trust' can protect against sophisticated hacking attacks,” by Liam Tung, ZDNet, 20 January 2021.
“Secure Score in Azure Security Center,” memildin, Microsoft.com, 5 January 2021.
“Thinking about Resiliency in Azure,” by John Savill, YouTube Video, June 2019.
“Top SolarWinds Risk Assessment Resources for Microsoft 365 and Azure,” by Susan Bradley, CSO Online, 13 January 2021.
“Zero Trust Deployment Center,” by 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.