Microsoft Community
I am honored to have received the request, trust, and support to establish and organize the Microsoft Security User Group with a great team of talented people. This article will detail the purpose, plan, and resources for this community and how you can engage.
Purpose
The purpose is to support our society to strengthen the IT-security practice and competency. By create a safe meeting space for people across industries, organizations, companies, and specializations who are curious and eager to learn, share, discuss, and discover relevant problem statements within cyber security and Microsoft technology.
Plan
Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture, where to start?
The plan is to systematically break down the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture through events to support the journey to grow the participants cybersecurity knowledge and skillset. The form will vary between:
- Presentations
- Workshops
- Hackathons
- Technical demos
We aiming to touch all skills levels.
See the model below for a draft of estimated events and tentative topics.
NB! Topics are subject to changes due to requests from the community.
Resources
Our community counts +350 members (learners/students, practicing and professional security specialists) and is rapidly growing after our kickoff event 20.04.2022.
We appreciate support in the form of a location to host the events. Food and drinks are always a plus, and contribution on topics is more than welcome. This is resources we would be happy to offer to support our society to strengthen the IT-security practice and competency.
For the first event, 20.04.2022 (Community Kickoff), Microsoft offered to sponsor our initiative with location, food, and drinks.
If you , your company, school, or organization would like to participate, do not hesitate to contact me for any inquiries.
Status
Today 22.04.2022, we have arranged our first meetup (hybrid in-person and virtually) with +100 attendees. Below is the agenda from the kickoff and the form we used.
16:30 — Doors open / mingling / food and drinks
17:00 — Microsoft Security User Group, why, who and how — Sanna Diana
17:30 — Securing Identity in Azure native world — Haflidi og Craig
18:10 — Break
18:20 — Securing Virtual Machine Workloads in Azure — Marius
19:00 — Wrap up / mingling
20:00 — Door closes
Get involved
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/microsoft-security-user-group/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MsSecUG
GitHub: https://github.com/msugn/events
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8909502/
