YURI DIOGENES, MSC Yuri holds a Master of Science in cybersecurity intelligence and forensics investigation (UTICA College) and is the principal PM manager for the Microsoft CxE Microsoft Defender for Cloud Team, where he manages a team of PMs who are responsible for improving the product and helping customers deploy it. Yuri has been working for Microsoft since 2006 in different positions, including five years as a senior support escalation engineer for the CSS Forefront Edge Team. From 2011 to 2017, he was a member of Microsoft’s content development team, where he also helped create the Azure Security Center content experience since its launch in 2016. Yuri has published 26 books, mostly about information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri also holds an MBA and many IT/Security industry certifications, such as CISSP, E|CND, E|CEH, E|CSA, E|CHFI, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Cloud Essentials Certified, Mobility+, Network+, CASP, CyberSec First Responder, MCSE, and MCTS. You can follow Yuri on Twitter at [...]

ORIN THOMAS is a principal cloud operations advocate at Microsoft and has written more than three dozen books for Microsoft Press covering topics including Windows Server, Windows Client, Azure, Microsoft 365, Office 365, System Center, Exchange Server, Security, and SQL Server. He has authored Azure Architecture courses at Pluralsight, has authored multiple Microsoft Official Curriculum and EdX courses on a variety of IT Pro topics, and is completing a Doctor of Information Technology on cloud computing security and compliance at Charles Sturt University. You can follow him on Twitter at [...]

1. Manage identity and access

2. Implement platform protection

3. Manage security operations

4. Secure data and applications