The Azure Security Podcast
by Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriguez and Mark Simos
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Episode 129: John Savill's Top of Mind
Jun 12, 2026
42m 35s
Episode 128: Post Quantum Cryptography
Jun 2, 2026
55m 21s
Episode 127: Threat intel update and AI
Apr 30, 2026
35m 42s
Episode 126: Microsoft Baseline Security Mode
Mar 21, 2026
36m 01s
Episode 125: Origins of MITRE ATT&CK
Feb 27, 2026
34m 39s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/12/26 | Episode 129: John Savill's Top of Mind✨ | securityMicrosoft Build+3 | John Savill | Michael's new bookMicrosoft+2 | — | securityMicrosoft+3 | — | 42m 35s | |
| 6/2/26 | Episode 128: Post Quantum Cryptography✨ | post-quantum cryptographyQ-Day+3 | Jack Richins | MicrosoftAzure Security | — | post-quantum cryptographyQ-Day+4 | — | 55m 21s | |
| 4/30/26 | Episode 127: Threat intel update and AI✨ | threat intelligenceAI security+3 | Sherrod DeGrippo | Azure SQL | — | threat intelAI+4 | — | 35m 42s | |
| 3/21/26 | Episode 126: Microsoft Baseline Security Mode✨ | Microsoft Baseline Security ModeAzure security news+5 | Sophie KeDave Minasyan | Microsoft 365 E7Microsoft 365 Copilot+4 | — | Microsoft Baseline Security ModeAzure security+5 | — | 36m 01s | |
| 2/27/26 | Episode 125: Origins of MITRE ATT&CK✨ | MITRE ATT&CKcybersecurity+3 | Blake Strom | MITREAzure+5 | Confidential VMs | MITRE ATT&CKcybersecurity+5 | — | 34m 39s | |
| 1/30/26 | Episode 124: Microsoft Security Response Center for AI✨ | AI securityMicrosoft Security Response Center+3 | Raji Vanninathan | Microsoft Security Response CenterAKS Deployment Safeguards+1 | — | Microsoft Security Response CenterAI security+3 | — | 29m 05s | |
| 1/21/26 | Episode 123: Agentic Identity✨ | agentic AI identityleast privilege issues+3 | Nick Wryter | Azure Database for PostgresSQLAzure MCP Server for Azure Confidential Ledger+7 | — | agentic AIleast privilege+6 | — | 36m 17s | |
| 12/15/25 | Episode 122: Microsoft Ignite 2025 Wrap-up✨ | AI securityMicrosoft Ignite+4 | — | BitlockerWindows+1 | 2025 | Microsoft Ignite 2025AI security+4 | — | 32m 54s | |
| 11/21/25 | Episode 121: New Open Group Security Standards Documentation✨ | security standardsAzure Security+3 | Mark Simos | Open GroupMicrosoft | — | Azure SecurityOpen Group+7 | — | 47m 52s | |
| 10/29/25 | Episode 120: The Zero Trust Workshop (and so much more!)✨ | Zero Trustidentity+3 | Merill Fernando | Azure SQL DBTDE | — | Zero Trustidentity+4 | — | 58m 51s | |
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| 10/9/25 | Episode 119: Pedantic Security Wording and Taxonomies✨ | security terminologytaxonomy+5 | Ryen Macababbad | Microsoft | — | security terminologytaxonomy+5 | — | 39m 59s | |
| 9/19/25 | Episode 118 - Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing with Mark Russinovich✨ | quantum cryptographyquantum computing+3 | Mark Russinovich | Microsoft Azure | — | quantum cryptographyquantum computing+3 | — | 33m 31s | |
| 8/29/25 | Episode 117: Cloud Gaming Security✨ | cloud gamingsecurity+3 | Russ Rogers | Xbox | — | cloud gamingsecurity+3 | — | 43m 29s | |
| 7/31/25 | Episode 116: Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake | 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!https://aka.ms/azsecpod | 40m 03s | ||||||
| 7/10/25 | Episode 115: Security in Model Context Protocol (MCP) | 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.https://aka.ms/azsecpod | 51m 58s | ||||||
| 6/9/25 | Episode 114: SQL Server 2025 Security Improvements | 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.https://aka.ms/azsecpod | 25m 21s | ||||||
| 5/16/25 | Episode 113: Microsoft Red Team | 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.https://aka.ms/azsecpod | 35m 48s | ||||||
| 5/13/25 | Episode 112: Security Copilot Agents | 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.https://aka.ms/azsecpod | 29m 53s | ||||||
| 4/17/25 | Episode 111: Securing Agentic AI | 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. | 23m 26s | ||||||
| 4/1/25 | Episode 110: Securing GenAI Applications with Entra (3 of 4): Monitoring and More | 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.https://aka.ms/azsecpod | 40m 14s | ||||||
| 2/19/25 | Episode 109: Securing GenAI Applications with Entra (2 of 4) - Overpermissioning | 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.https://aka.ms/azsecpod | 37m 57s | ||||||
| 1/20/25 | Episode 108: Securing GenAI Applications with Entra | 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. | 22m 27s | ||||||
| 1/6/25 | Episode 107: Secure by default and Copilot Overshare Blueprints | 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!https://aka.ms/azsecpod | 37m 19s | ||||||
| 12/10/24 | Episode 106: Microsoft Ignite Security Wrap-up | 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.https://aka.ms/aszecpod | 44m 23s | ||||||
| 11/22/24 | Episode 105: Azure and Entra ID Security Tools | 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.https://aka.ms/azsecpod | 36m 59s | ||||||
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24 placements across 24 markets.
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24 placements across 24 markets.