Yuri Diogenes With a master of science in cybersecurity intelligence and forensics investigation (UTICA College), Yuri is senior program manager in Microsoft CxP Security Team, where he primarily helps customers onboard and incorporate Azure Security Center as part of their security operations/incident response. Yuri has been working for Microsoft since 2006 in different positions, including five years as senior support escalation engineer in CSS Forefront Edge Team, and from 2011 to 2017 in the content development team, where he also helped create the Azure Security Center content experience since its launch in 2016. Yuri has published a total of 20 books, mostly around information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri also holds an MBA and many IT/Security industry certifications, such as CISSP, ECND, ECEH, ECSA, ECHFI, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Cloud Essentials Certified, Mobility+, Network+, CASP, CyberSec First Responder, MCSE, and MCTS. You can follow Yuri on Twitter at @yuridiogenes or read his articles at his personal blog: http://aka.ms/yuridio. Dr. Thomas Shinder is a cloud security program manager in Azure Security Engineering.
He is responsible for security technical content and education, customer engagements, and competitive analysis. He has presented at many of the largest security industry conferences on topics related to both on-premises and public cloud security and architecture. Tom earned a bachelor's degree in neuropsychobiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MD from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He was a practicing neurologist prior to changing careers in the 1990s. He has written over 30 books on OS, network, and cloud security, including Microsoft Azure Security Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure Security Center (IT Best Practices series, Microsoft Press). Tom can be found hugging his Azure console when he's not busy hiding his keys and secrets in Azure Key Vault.