Within this blog, I want to give an overview of all the feature in Q2 2025 that becomes available in General Available, Public Preview, Private Preview or Retired by Microsoft. This information can be found at Microsoft Azure Updates. Features that are now General Available (GA) by Microsoft: Smart VM defaults in …

AZ-Security learning by doing! Already more than the 10 episodes! I am super excited about making content for and getting a lot of positive feedback on my AZ-Security Channel! I've started my journey two months ago. This new channel presents the latest Security news on Microsoft Azure technology. Each time I want to …

Recap OC3 Conference - Bringing all Confidential Experts together and share new features what is coming Introduction Yesterday, I had the pleasure, to be part of OC3 conference which was hosted by Edge Systems, physical in Berlin and digital with sponsers "Google, Intel, Microsoft, Airbus, ARM and Confidential …

Recap YellowHat - Bringing Security Experts together Introduction Last week, I had the pleasure, to be part of YellowHat event together with colleques, organized at the Microsoft head office. Yellowhat is a cybersecurity conference held in Schiphol, Netherlands, focusing on Microsoft Security solutions, particularly …

Introduction As a security Architect, I freqently get the question, how to improve the Secure Score Card (Posture) of an Azure environment. To get a better understanding, I've wrote this blog, what it is and how to improve it's value. This information can be found at Microsoft Learn. What is the Secure Score Card in …

Introduction As a security Architect, after answering the first question "Which defender for cloud plans should be enabled and why", mostly this question follows "How get a easier overview of detection, investigation and response over all Defender for cloud solutions?". To get a better …

Introduction As a security Architect, I mostly get the question, which defender for cloud plans should be enabled and why. Aldo it really depends on the Azure Landscape of the organisation, it is good to have a good understanding in all the possibilities. To get a better understanding, in all the plans, I've wrote this …

Introduction All the things you need to know about Azure Key Vault Managed HSM, is right here! This blog describes the my experience which I have learned working with the Azure Key Vault Managed HSM and its lifecycle management. What is Azure Key Vault Managed HSM Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (Hardware Security Module), …

Achievement Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Happy to announce that I recently achieved the status of Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), beside my Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP). A dream come true. Not only confirmation of my technical knowledge and experience, but also fullfilling my great passion by …

Cloud for Sovereignty Last week we had the opportunity to speak at the community Azure Dutch Meetup about the Security topic "What is Confidential Compute with Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty". The meetup was organized in the evening, hosted at Xebia Microsoft Services in Hilversum. During that evening I …