Episode 19: Tom Janetscheck- The main pillars of Azure Security Center

In this episode of the #AzureLateShow podcast, we had the opportunity to speak with our special guest Tom Janet Janetscheck, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Cybersecurity Engineering, focused on Azure Security Center, and our Co-Host for these series of the podcast, Pablo Chacón, Security Community Lead to discuss about the main pillars of Azure Security Center.

Episode Highlights

• Introductions [0:27]
• Tom’s role at Microsoft [1:44]
• Becoming Senior Program Manager [2:50]
• Tom’s experience with Azure Security Center [11:45]
• Best practices and recommendations to leverage Azure Security Secure Score [17:23 ]
• Cloud Workload Protection Platform – Azure Defender [22:15]
• Azure Security Center new announcements [25:22]
• How you can provide feedback to the Azure Security Center Team [26:30]
• Pablo’s recommendation on how to engage with the security community [30:48]

Resources:

• ASC Github community
• Microsoft Security Community on TechCommunity
• Azure Security Center community forum
• Azure Security Center blogs
• Forums for all Microsoft security Engineering Team and Services: aka.ms/securitycommunity
• Online public forums, and recorded and upcoming public webinars: aka.ms/securitywebinars
• Azure Security Center Ninja Training

About our Special Guest

Tom Janetscheck Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Cybersecurity Engineering, focused on Azure Security Center.

Tom Janetscheck is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Cybersecurity Engineering, focused on Azure Security Center. Prior to that, he has been working in different internal IT and consulting roles for almost two decades, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure, architecture, and security.

As a well-known international conference speaker, tech blogger, and book author, and as one of the founders and organizers of the Azure Saturday community conferences, the former Microsoft MVP is actively taking his experience into international tech communities.

In his spare time, Tom is an enthusiastic motorcyclist, scuba diver, guitarist, bassist, rookie drummer, and station officer at a local fire department.

Co-Host

Pablo Chacón – Security Community Lead at Microsoft.

Pablo is Senior Program Manager in the Cloud Security group in Azure. He is responsible for leading community security communities that Microsoft engineering teams engage with the goal of learning from customers, and gathering their feedback for the roadmap of Azure security services.

Pablo’s first experience with Microsoft was in 1994, when he became an intern at Microsoft’s subsidiary in Ecuador, his home country. As an intern, he traveled the country educating customers on Microsoft Office, Widows 95, Windows Server and other Microsoft products. He then joined Microsoft as an employee, and its internal IT division, in 2001, helping manage and protect computers within the Microsoft network around the world. In 2009 he joined an incubation team focused on remote device management, and which later became Microsoft Intune. He was responsible for the incubation of Intune’s customer support service, as well as the implementation and leadership of Intune’s Incident Management processes.

Pablo joined Azure security in 2018 on his current role, where he enjoys connecting customers with security engineering teams in Microsoft.

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