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Identity Governance, SMB’s & Cybercrime, Azure Landing Zones and Iced Coffee | EP09
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Identity Governance, SMB’s & Cybercrime, Azure Landing Zones and Iced Coffee | EP09

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Episode 9 of Cloudy With A Chance Of Insights is now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more.

This week, we discuss.

➡️ Identity Governance (Stale Accounts, JML Processes & Access Reviews)
➡️ Cybersecurity and SMBs
➡️ Azure Landing Zones
➡️ Windows update removing Copilot
➡️ A fun AI learning tool called Gandalf
➡️ Serverless GPU’s going GA.
➡️ Update to the Kubernetes service allowing for improved monitoring of identities

Tangents this week include my habit of drinking iced coffee in the winter and my obsession with music, and David Rowley the Ross (from Friends) video was rather too accurate 🙁.

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Richard Hogan

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Richard is a Microsoft-focused architect and consultant with deep expertise in Azure, Microsoft 365, cybersecurity, and enterprise cloud migration. He is the founder of The Microsoft Cloud Blog and co-host of the Cloudy with a Chance of Insights podcast. All views expressed are his own.

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