Let's Talk Azure!
Episodes
S4E5 - Azure Confidential Ledger - Use blockchain to create secure, tamper proof data stores
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Confidential Ledger can help organisations to create private tamper proof stores of data. Sam explains the features of ...
S4E4 - Understand your Cloud Security Posture using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss why it is important to have a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution in place. Alan explains the benefits of CSPM, and...
S4E3 - Azure Functions - Build serverless application in the cloud, just focus on your code, leave the rest to Azure
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss Azure Functions. Azure Functions allows you to build serverless applications on top of Azure. Serverless functions allow you to b...
S4E2 - Securing Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) using Microsoft Technology
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss how to manage Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) securely in an organisation. With hybrid working on the rise, more flexibility is nee...
S4E1 - Defender for DevOps - Add protection to your DevOps process with ease
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss Defender for DevOps. It gives you visibility of your security posture within your CI/CD processes. Improves your threat protectio...
S3E21 - Season 3 Finale - including a Microsoft Build 2023 recap!
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Season 3 Finale! Where has the time gone! Alan and Sam discuss the season, what their favorite episode were. They discuss some of the announc...
S3E20 - Windows 365 vs Azure Virtual Desktop, how do you decide?
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss the difference between Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Alan goes through what to consider when choosing which techno...
S3E19 - Azure DevOps Services - plan, manage and deploy software more effectively
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss Azure DevOps services and its features. Sam gives us a tour of the features and benefits of Azure DevOps and how it can be integr...
S3E18 - Windows 365 - the ultimate managed Cloud PC for all
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss all of the features of Windows 365. Alan goes through the pricing, benefits and how organisations can use this to provide secure ...
S3E17 - Azure Load Testing - Load test your APIs and Web Applications with ease
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Load Testing can streamlined you load testing QA process. Bring your JMeter scripts, configure the service and let Azur...
S3E16 - Azure Firewall - Securing your Azure Network
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Firewall can help secure your network environment. Alan discusses how to set it up, and when you should decide to use i...
S3E15 - Azure API Management - Manage and Secure your APIs at scale
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss Azure API Management. Sam explains the key features and benefits of using API management to manage your APIs at scale. What did ...
S3E14 - Azure Private Link (plus some important news!!!) - Secure access to your Azure resources
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss the Azure Private Link and how it can secure your services. Alan goes through the functionality available and the benefits of usi...
S3E13 - Azure Static Web Apps - Rapidly deploy globally hosted static & serverless web applications
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss Azure static Web applications. Part of Azure App Service, static web apps allows developers to deploy static web applications in ...
S3E12 - Microsoft Intune Suite - New SKUs are in town!
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss the new Intune licences that have recently been released. Alan goes through the new functionality that is coming to Intune and wh...
S3E11 - Azure Cognitive Services - Efficiently add cognitive functionality into your apps/services
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss the functionality provided by Azure Cognitive Services, a group of AI powered cognitive solutions that can rapidly add advanced c...
S3E10 - Power Platform - Managing your application lifecycle with Solutions
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Power Platform solutions can help manage your lo-code/no-code application lifecycle. Alan runs through what a solution can be...
S3E9 - Azure Developer CLI - Helping Developers to Deploy and manage their Applications on Azure
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how The Azure Developer CLI can be used to help automate and manage key points in the application development lifecycle. Sam disc...
S3E8 - Azure Key Vault - Securing your Certificates and Secrets
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Key vault can help secure your certificates, keys, and secrets. Alan goes though the types of vaults you can use and ho...
S3E7 - Azure Stack - Take Azure with you to the Edge
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Stack solutions can help bring the capabilities of Azure management plane to your on-premises and edge environments. Sa...
S3E6 - Microsoft Defender for Office - Protecting users from phishing attacks and more
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) can be used to protect users from phishing attacks. Alan will go through all the security...
S3E5 - Confidential Computing in Azure - Apply Zero Trust Principles to your IaaS and PaaS Workloads
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Confidential Computing can be used to add additional zero trust principle layers to workloads running in Azure. Confidential ...
S3E4 - Privileged Identity Management - Secure Azure and Azure AD
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft’s Privileged Identity Management (PIM) can be used to improve your identity Security. PIM gives the ability to pr...
S3E3 - Do the same for less - 15 ways to reduce your costs in Azure
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam explain 15 ways that you can save costs in Azure…. ssh…. don’t tell Microsoft! If you have workloads in Azure, we hope that you wil...
S3E2 - Azure Virtual Desktop - Providing access to applications and desktops anywhere.
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) can be used provide application and virtual desktops from anywhere. Alan discusses how AVD works,...
S3E1 - Azure MFA - Securing access to your corporate environment
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Azure MFA can be used to improve you security posture. MFA is ubiquitous in 2023, however utilizing MFA in a secure and user ...
S2E21 - Season Finale! - End of Season Recap
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. W...
S2E20 - Microsoft XDR – Create a Holistic View of Your Environment
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 wha...
S2E19 - Microsoft Power Platform – Power to the Users
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ho...
S2E18 - Microsoft Defender for IoT – Discover and protect your IoT Devices
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 '...
S2E17 - Microsoft Sentinel - Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR capabilities
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Sentinel can help organisations have visibility of malicious activity in their environment. Alan takes the role of ...
S2E16 - Microsoft Ignite 2022 - The In-Person Experience
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Se...
S2E15 - Azure Sphere – Securing IoT Devices from Silicon to Cloud
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 'Ex...
S2E14 - Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S2E13 - Architecting Serverless Applications in Azure/O365
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 trad...
S2E12 - Microsoft Purview Information Protection – Classify and Secure Your data
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Purview Information Protection can help label, classify and protect your data in Office 365 . Alan takes the role o...
S2E11 - Microsoft Purview Data Governance Portal
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Sam discuss how the Microsoft Purview – Data Governance Portal can help you to manage and govern your organisations data. Sam takes the rol...
S2E10 - Microsoft Entra – Azure AD – Identity Governance
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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....
S2E9 - Microsoft Entra Permission Management - First Look
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
S2E8 - Securing Multi-Cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S2E7 - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Adop...
S2E6 - Microsoft Entra – Securing and Managing Cloud Identities
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
S2E5 - Managing Compliance with Azure Policy
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S2E4 - Modern Device Management with Microsoft Endpoint Manager
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S2E3 - Terraform - Deploy your Infrastructure as Code
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S2E2 - Microsoft Entra - First Look
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
S2E1 - Aaaaaaaand We're Back!
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ha...
S1E9 - Infrastructure as Code – ARM Templates
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Alan and Sam deep dive into Infrastructure as Code and specifically ARM Templates inside of Azure. We talk about what infrastructure a...
S1E8 - Microsoft Ignite Recap
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Alan and Sam talk recap all the latest news from Ignite! Even though Ignite was virtual this year, Microsoft announced a load of new f...
S1E7 - Cloud vs On Premises
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Alan and Sam talk around the move from on premises to the cloud. Why are companies doing this? What are the cost advantages? Is the cl...
S1E6 - Zero Trust
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we have a deep dive looking at Zero Trust, the principles, components and tools that enable us to be more secure in the modern workplace....
S1E5 - Security Center
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look at Azure Security Center and the features and benefits that it can bring to a range of different teams working with assets in ...
S1E4 - Learning and Accreditations for Azure/O365
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we cover many aspects of the learning and accreditation process within the ecosystem of Microsoft. We wanted to give a high level over...
S1E3 - The Rise of the Citizen Developer
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss the changing nature of who builds applications and systems on Azure/o365. In recent years, with the proliferation of low/no...
S1E2 - Microsoft Build Recap
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we recap the Microsoft Build virtual conference. Build this year, due to COVID19 was broadcast over 48 hours non stop across the world...
S1E1 - Hello World!
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of the Let's Talk! Azure podcast. In this episode we introduce ourselves and cover some of the current Azure news. What d...