The purpose of this blog is to provide a link to the people, companies and bits I use and/or find useful, it’s a reference guide for everyone, please consider dropping me an email/message or note if there are other places you use to stay up to date. <be aware this is a work in progress>, be aware each of these curated rescues could use a little work, how do you find the best information to support your needs, Generative AI is going to make the world a lot easier to research, discover and support people learn and grow. It’s an amazing time to be alive.
People I follow
| Area of expertise | Social media one | YouTube | |
| Identity | Ian Paramore | ||
| Identity | Ben Athawes | ||
| SIEM/SOAR – Product Sentinel | Javier Soriano | ||
| Sentinel SME | Kieran B | ||
| IAM/IGA | Mark Wahl | ||
| Sentinel SME | Toby G | ||
| Sentinel SME | Alistair Ross | GitHub The Alistair Ross | |
| Entra / Azure AD SME | Donovan Du Val | GitHub Donovan4 | |
| Entra / Azure AD SME | Meril Fernando | Microsoft official GitHub EntraExporter | |
| Identity + Cyber Architecture (posh word for Design) | Mark Simos | Check out Marks List and his work on MCRA (Microsoft Cyber reference architecture (https://aka.ms/MCRA) | |
| Cyber Architect | James Noyce | Several white papers | |
| Microsoft Security SME | Ashish Kapila | ||
| Microsoft Security SME | Sarah Young | ||
| Host of Ninja Show Security SME | Heike Ritter | ||
| Microsoft Security SME | Rod Trent | ||
| Microsoft Security SME | Yuri Diogenes | ||
| AVD + Windows 365 | Christiaan Brinkhoff | ||
| AVD + Windows 365 | Jim Moyle | ||
| AVD + Windows 365 | Nick Hall | ||
| Nerdio SME | Jez Haisman | ||
| Azure VMWare migrations | Ravi Sachdev | ||
| AI Security | Ram Shankar Siva Kumar | ||
| AI Security | Hyrum Anderson | ||
| AI Security | Sharon Xia | ||
| AI Security Product Manager | Sylvie Liu | ||
| All things AI and big Data | Dr Andy Veal | ||
| Adversely AI Engineering | Raja Sekhar Rao Dheekonda | ||
| CEO Dreadnode (AI red teaming AI Protections) | Will Pearce | ||
| Security Researcher | Mark Morowczynski | ||
| PKI /Azure / On-Prem, and Hybrid | Orin Thomas | ||
| All round amazing man | John Savill | ||
| Cloud Advocate | Sonia Cuff | ||
| CISO Security | Sarah Armstrong-Smith | ||
| PM Power Platform | Phil Topness | ||
| Azure CXP Customer experience program manger | Javier Rodriguez | ||
| MS Board Member | Ann Johnson | ||
| Vice Chair Microsoft | Brad Smith | ||
| RedHat PM | Jerome Marc | ||
| RedHat PM Ansilbe | Phil Griffiths | ||
Companies/Websites
Gartner
Forester
Ping
Okta – Identity
CyberARK PAM (Privileged access management)
Migration tooling
Migration tooling, Active Directory and Cloud to Cloud (Google to M365 and back again)
Book List
| Author | Title (UK Link) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Brad Smith | Tools and Weapons Review to come (I’m just a little slow) | |
| Avind NArayanan & Sayash Kapoor | AI Snake Oil My Review | |
| Christopher Summerfield | These Strange New Minds | |
| Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Dr Hyrum Anderson | Not with a bug but with a sticker Review to come (I’m just a little slow) | Attacking AI models, how secure are they? |
| Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar | The coming Wave | |
| John Tierney and Roy F Baumeister | The Power of Bad | How strong is our fear of negativity. |
| Major Scotty Mills | Never Give in | An inspirational book by an amazing person. |
| Christopher Summerfield | These Strange New Minds | AI history and what next? with an awesome reliving of HitchHikers guide to the galaxy. |
Other bits
Websites
Blogs
X
YouTube
PodCasts
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Direct links: Microsoft Threat Intelligence Securing the AI Frontier Root link to search from | |
Events:
Google I/O – Google developer conference
Apple
AVS re:Invent – developer focused
Microsoft Ignite