CloudFirst: Recent Episodes
Marius Sandbu and Marius Solbakken Mellum
Many organizations are looking at their cloud environments, wondering whether parts of it should be moved back on-premises or to other cloud providers. What are the options, really? And is what is Microsoft 365 Local? Let's find out!
In this episode we talk about how managed identities and federated credentials can help you eliminate all client secrets in your environment. Hopefully, after this episode, you'll never create a client secret again!
In this episode we talk about what has been on everyone's lips lately; DeepSeek. What's happening in the GenAI world in general, and will we see more situations DeepSeek-like situations going forward?
Interested in a summary of what Microsoft announced at Ignite this year? Look no further, we got you covered!
In this episode we discuss our favorite topic of all; licenses! More specifically Entra licensing. Did Marius win the bet of whether Global Secure Access would be included in Entra ID P2 or not? And is the Entra Suite license actually decently priced? Find out that and more in this episode of the Cloudfirst Podcast!
In this episode we talk about news from Google Next, Entra External ID, Passkeys and Copilot for Security. Is Entra External ID, which will be GA in two weeks, ready to replace Azure AD B2C? How do passkeys really work? And, who is Copilot for Security really for?
In this episode we talk about the Midnight Blizzard attack on Microsoft, which turns into a rather detailed discussion on Microsoft Graph scopes and their wide permissions. Also, how many Copilot products does Microsoft have now? And how hyper-scale is Azure really?
As it has been a while since last episode, there is a lot of news to cover!
- The final details about Storm 0558 has been published
- Microsoft and Oracle Expand Partnership to Deliver Oracle Database Services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Fabric
- Microsoft 365 Copilot in GA November 1st
- Bicep support for Entra ID
- Azure Updated Manager GA
- Delegate Azure RBAC assignments with conditions- Azure VNET Flow Logs
- Terraform licensing and OpenTOFU
- Entra ID Device-bound passkeys as an authentication method (Said syncable passkeys in the Episode, which is not correct, sorry about that!)
And more... :) Enjoy!
In this episode we talk about the new Entra ID inbound provisioning API, the recent developments in a few Microsoft security issues and the recent 0-day utilized to attack the Norwegian government through MobileIron.
In this episode we discuss the renaming of Azure Active Directory to Entra ID, as well as deep diving into the Global Secure Access service launched into preview at the recent "Reimagine secure access with Microsoft Entra" event.
In this episode Marius and Marius talks about the news from Microsoft Build and potential new licensing for Microsoft Entra. Also, is Cloud PC really the future, or is Microsoft actually just reinventing the thin client?
In this Episode, Marius and Marius discusses AI, or more specifically the Large Language Model (LLM) AIs available and how they can actually be used by enterprises for their own data, today.
Cloud can be adopted in many ways, but not all ways are created equal. In this episode we talk about antipatterns for cloud adoption.
Resource used for inspiration: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/antipatterns/antipatterns-to-avoid
In this episode, Marius and Marius talks about news in the different cloud platforms. Ignite, AWS re:Invent and Google Cloud Next has all been arranged, all containing some interesting news.
What is really the importance of education and certification within IT? Listen in as your two favorite Mariuses discuss their way through education and certifications, and share their best tricks on how to pass your certification exams!
Join us as we discuss the latest in cloud, this time talking about Azure Permissions Management (Cloudnox), Databricks, the Microsoft Oracle partnership, DevBox, Defender Threat Intelligence, External Attack Surface Management and much more!
In this episode, your hosts Marius Sandbu and Marius Solbakken Mellum talks about what CDNs are, and why you most likely have a need them in your environment.
In this episode, we discuss PaaS services and whether you can trust these, with all security issues happening lately. We also discuss the Microsoft and Okta hacks, while the stories are still developing.
In this episode we talk about Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, what is it and how can we get going with it?
Mr Sandu had a temporary headset with poor audio, but we'll fix it for the next episode!
Join us as we discuss workload identities, and different options available. What is really the difference between app registrations and enterprise applications? Which problems does Managed Service Identities solve? And what does Workload Identity Federation really mean?
In this episode Marius Sandbu and Marius Solbakken Mellum discuss public cloud availability considerations, recent downtime in AWS and the end of mankind.
Join us as we talk about ways of publishing services to the internet.
The Azure load balancing decision tree
In this episode we dig through most of the news announced at Microsoft Ignite. Lots of it is listed at in the Book of News, but there were quite a few more things than that.
Join as we continue our discussion around Azure Networking. This time we focus more on PaaS services, and how we can enable private or managed networking for these.
NIC, NSG, ASG, Virtual Network, Vnet Peering, Global Vnet Peering, Azure Firewall, Network Virtual Appliance, VPN Gateway, Express Route, Load Balancer, Public IPs, NAT... and some more. Listen in on us talking about Azure Networking!
Hybrid is a word thrown around all the time, but what is hybrid cloud, what can it solve and what cannot it not solve?
Do you remember Azure Pack? AWS Outposts or Azure Stack Hub? How about PaaS services in hybrid? And why would you want VMware on Public Cloud?
Join us as we discuss hybrid cloud.
Managing the keys to your services is an important task ignored by many. Listen in to learn about key rollover, what a service principal really is and avoid do not make keys the future you's problem.
Marius Sandbu
Marius Solbakken Mellum
Everyone loves printers and Exchange servers, and we have had our fair share of security issues with those this summer. Join us as we discuss the last two months.
Attack trends
Marius Sandbu
Marius Solbakken Mellum