Cloudfirst Podcast Marius Sandbu and Marius Solbakken Mellum

In this episode we talk about news from Google Next, Entra External ID, Passkeys and Copilot for Security. Is Entra External ID, which will be GA in two weeks, ready to replace Azure AD B2C? How do passkeys really work? And, who is Copilot for Security really for?

In this episode we talk about the Midnight Blizzard attack on Microsoft, which turns into a rather detailed discussion on Microsoft Graph scopes and their wide permissions. Also, how many Copilot products does Microsoft have now? And how hyper-scale is Azure really? 

As it has been a while since last episode, there is a lot of news to cover!

- The final details about Storm 0558 has been published
- Microsoft and Oracle Expand Partnership to Deliver Oracle Database Services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Fabric
- Microsoft 365 Copilot in GA November 1st
- Bicep support for Entra ID
- Azure Updated Manager GA
- Delegate Azure RBAC assignments with conditions
- Azure VNET Flow Logs
- Terraform licensing and OpenTOFU
- Entra ID Device-bound passkeys as an authentication method (Said syncable passkeys in the Episode, which is not correct, sorry about that!)

And more... :) Enjoy!

In this episode we talk about the new Entra ID inbound provisioning API, the recent developments in a few Microsoft security issues and the recent 0-day utilized to attack the Norwegian government through MobileIron.

In this episode we discuss the renaming of Azure Active Directory to Entra ID, as well as deep diving into the Global Secure Access service launched into preview at the recent "Reimagine secure access with Microsoft Entra" event.

In this episode Marius and Marius talks about the news from Microsoft Build and potential new licensing for Microsoft Entra. Also, is Cloud PC really the future, or is Microsoft actually just reinventing the thin client?