Mark Simos is Lead Cybersecurity Architect for Microsoft where he leads the development of cybersecurity reference architectures, best practices, reference strategies, prescriptive roadmaps, CISO workshops, and other guidance to help organizations meet cybersecurity and digital transformation goals. Mark is co-host of the Azure Security Podcast and actively contributes to open standards and other publications such as the Zero Trust Commandments, The Open Group Zero Trust Core Principles, NIST Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery (800-184), NIST Guide to Enterprise Patch Management (800-40), Microsoft Digital Defense Report, and Microsoft Security blogs. Mark also co-chairs the Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) working group at The Open Group and has presented numerous conferences including Black Hat USA, RSA Conference, Gartner Security & Risk Management, Microsoft BlueHat, Microsoft Ignite, and Financial Executives International.

Sarah Young is a Senior Cloud Security Advocate at Microsoft and a CNCF Ambassador with over a decade of experience in security across Europe, the US and Asia. Sarah is an experienced public speaker and has presented on a range of IT security and technology topics at industry events and holds numerous industry qualifications including CISSP, CCSP, CISM and Azure Solutions Architect and has previously co-authored Microsoft Press technical books. She is also a co-host of the Azure Security Podcast. Sarah has also won the Security Champion award at the Australian Women in Security Awards. She is an active supporter of both local and international security and cloud native communities. You can follow Sarah on Twitter @_sarahyo, although expect many dog pictures alongside security content.

Gladys Rodriguez is Principal Cybersecurity Engineer with over 25 years in the Information Technology field. As part of the Mission Engineering team, Gladys has helped embed existing security capabilities within Microsoft developed products/services. She has also helped create new security functionality for customers to enable zero trust in their environment. Recently, Gladys has been involved in helping develop zero trust strategies for Operational Technology used in Critical Infrastructure with special focus in aerospace solutions. Gladys is co-host of the Azure Security Podcast for both English and Spanish version. She has also contributed to publications such as the Microsoft Zero Trust publications, NIST SP 800-207, Zero Trust Architecture, Microsoft Exam SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect and others. Gladys also spends a lot of time mentoring and sharing her knowledge with others to help them get more involved in the cybersecurity space.

CHAPTER 2      Design a security operations strategy

CHAPTER 3      Design an identity security strategy

CHAPTER 4      Design a regulatory compliance strategy

CHAPTER 5      Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk

CHAPTER 6      Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints

CHAPTER 7      Design a strategy for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services

CHAPTER 8      Specify security requirements for applications

CHAPTER 9      Design a strategy for securing data

CHAPTER 10    Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures and Microsoft cloud security benchmark best practices

CHAPTER 11    Recommend a secure methodology by using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

CHAPTER 12    Recommend a ransomware strategy by using Microsoft Security Best Practices

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