Play by Play: Azure Security with Mark Russinovich
There are many security questions to answer when considering migrating from an on-premise infrastructure to the cloud. Is my data secure from bad guys? Is it safe from the cloud provider? Are they mining customer data? Once we move virtual machines into the cloud, is there anything we can do as administrators, or that the cloud provider can do to make our systems secure? In this Play by Play, we tackle these questions and more with Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure.
What you'll learn
Play by Play is a series where we sit down with industry experts and discuss a specific problem or issue in real time - unscripted, unrehearsed, and unfiltered. This edition of Play by Play is a deep dive into cloud security with one of the leading security experts in the industry, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure. Mark Minasi asks the difficult questions that every DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Architect, and SysAdmin wonders when considering moving to the cloud. Is my data secure from bad guys? Is it safe from Microsoft? Are they mining customer data? Once we move virtual machines into the cloud, is there anything we can do as administrators, or that Microsoft can do to make our systems secure? Learn what Microsoft is doing to ensure security and how Azure differs from other cloud services in this Play by Play.
Table of contents
- Is the Cloud as Secure as On-premise? 7m
- What About Threats and Breaches Within Microsoft? 10m
- Customer Security Considerations and Benefits of Azure for IaaS 8m
- Azure Penetration Testing 4m
- Discovering the Real Value Proposition of the Cloud 4m
- Security Benefits of Cloud-based SQL Server, Office, and AD 8m
- What if a "Zero Day" Scenario Occurs? 6m
- Can We Mitigate the Risks of "Cloud Monoculture?" 5m
About the authors
Mark Minasi is a best-selling author, popular technology columnist, commentator, keynote speaker, and IT consultant. He is probably best known for his Mastering Windows Server and Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide books, both of which have seen more than 12 editions and sold over a million copies. An audience member at a recent talk remarked that he believed that Mark could "do a talk on watching paint dry that would be so good that people would be motivated to go home and paint a wall j... more
Mark Russinovich is Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and he joined Microsoft when it acquired Winternals Software, which he co-founded in 1996. He is also author of the popular Sysinternals Windows administration and diagnostic tools. He is coauthor of the Microsoft Press Windows Internals book series, a contributing editor for TechNet Magazine, and a senior contributing ... more