The Azure Security Podcast

In this episode Michael talks to Raji Vanninathan about the Microsoft Security Response Center for AI.
We also cover security news about AKS Deployment Safeguards policies.
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In this episode, Michael, Sarah and Mark talk to Nick Wryter about agentic AI identity, with a big focus on least privilege issues. We also cover news about:
Microsoft AI Tour
Azure Database for PostgresSQL
Azure MCP Server for Azure Confidential Ledger
Application Gateway, FIPS 140-2 and TLS
Outbound internet access from VMs
Azure NetApp Files and Ransomware protection
Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring
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In this episode Michael, Sarah and Mark discuss security-related topics from the recent Microsoft Ignite 2025 event. Lots of AI-related security topics, including using AI for security and defending AI systems. Bitlocker, Windows and so much more!
This is the last episode of 2025! It was a blast, and thanks for listening! We hope you find this material useful!
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See you in 2026!

In this episode Michael and Sarah talk with co-host Mark Simos about new security standards documentation from the Open Group. It's a long episode but worth it!
We also discuss Azure Security news about Private Endpoints, Azure Front Door, Azure WAF CAPTCHA, Azure Sphere, Private Link Service Direct Connect, Azure Integrated HSM, Azure Firewall pre-scaling and observed capacity metric, and Microsoft Ignite.
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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,