As organizations accelerate their cloud adoption, robust security for your Infrastructure as a Service platform is more critical than ever. This session will provide a comprehensive exploration of Azure’s security architecture, best practices, and innovations across four pillars: foundational security, compute security, network security, and storage security. Attendees will gain actionable insights to strengthen their cloud posture, ensure compliance, and protect sensitive workloads.

What happens when AI meets the frontline? Discover how to unlock productivity and efficiency with innovative AI-powered solutions tailored for frontline-specific workflows and mobile-first experiences, without compromising security and control. Learn practical approaches to modernizing your frontline through smart, simple, secure solutions with Microsoft 365, and simplifying IT complexity to deploy and manage at scale.

Discover how you can use AI for PowerShell and Azure CLI to boost automation and simplify complex commands. We’ll showcase how AI can generate scripts on demand, guide you through best practices, and help enforce governance and security policies confidently. Through practical demos, see how natural language prompts can automate tasks, apply guardrails, and secure your estate.

Dive into the latest compute innovation at the core of Azure IaaS. This session highlights key compute advancements across performance, cost optimization, scalability, reliability, and security designed to make both new and existing workloads run faster, more efficiently, and more securely. Whether you're running mission-critical enterprise apps or scaling cloud-native services, discover how these innovations are unlocking new value for customers and get a preview of what’s coming next.

As threats grow more complex, teams need improved visibility and context to defend threats faster. In this lab, we’ll explore how Microsoft Purview and Defender XDR integrate to help organizations investigate security incidents through a single pane.

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This session presents proven security frameworks for private wireless networks, showing how field-tested strategies and AI-powered defenses have cut incidents by 63%, reduced costs, and safeguarded critical infrastructure against advanced cyber threats.

From Zero to MCP Hero shows how to build secure, governed MCP integrations in Copilot Studio that unlock real-time data and safe actions at scale. Attendees will learn best‑practice patterns for security, authentication, DLP, and role‑based access, plus deployment tips to reduce maintenance and ship faster. Walk away with a blueprint to connect any API via MCP—safely, compliantly, and with enterprise reliability.

With cyberattacks on the rise amid the growth of AI applications, having a robust, secure network environment for all your workloads is more essential than ever. Join this session to hear from network security experts on how to improve your security posture through Azure Network Security products including Azure Firewall and Azure DDoS Protection in combination with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Hear announcements of new capabilities for both and see a live demo of successful DDoS mitigation.

Discover how Security Copilot in Microsoft Defender is redefining SecOps. In this session, we’ll share Copilot’s latest innovations and show how the modern SOC is evolving into an agentic, AI-driven operation. See real-world demos across the SOC lifecycle that highlight how AI and agents deliver measurable outcomes, empower analysts, and close the gap between detection and prevention. Join us to step into the future of defense, where Microsoft enables every organization turn intelligence into action.

See how Security Copilot empowers data security teams to protect sensitive data faster with less manual effort. Learn about new AI agents in Microsoft Purview that automate tasks and accelerate risk response across your security operations.

This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of automated AI red teaming generative AI systems for safety and security risks using Microsoft Foundry. Attendees will learn how to apply automated attack techniques to identify safety issues and security vulnerabilities across multiple risk dimensions before deployment. Participants will engage in hands-on walkthroughs and guided exercises to apply these concepts in realistic development scenarios.

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A new era of work is emerging—where the browser becomes a proactive, context-aware partner that helps move work forward. As a secure enterprise browser at its core, Edge for Business brings AI-powered assistance to everyday workflows, including Copilot Mode and multi-tab reasoning. See Copilot Mode in action and explore new contractor scenarios, among other security and management capabilities designed to help IT leaders deliver secure, productive experiences on any device, anywhere.

Learn how the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 ICES vendor ecosystem is changing email security forever. This integration establishes a blueprint for how leading security vendors can work together. The future of cybersecurity lies not in choosing between competing solutions, but in intelligently combining complementary capabilities to create comprehensive defense strategies that address the full spectrum of modern cyber threats.

Efficiently deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot confidently with data security posture management (DSPM). Secure Copilot-generated content, discover and classify sensitive data, enforce zero standing privileges, monitor for anomalies, and remediate risks.

In this session, we’ll demystify how to get the most out of Microsoft Purview data security solutions, including real world stories of organizations who have successfully implemented classification, labeling, and DLP and their learnings along the way.

Learn how Microsoft secures agentic AI systems across the lifecycle. Discover design strategies and real-world tool examples—from Microsoft Security and Microsoft Foundry—to build safe, resilient agents aligned with Secure Future Initiative principles.

Learn how Microsoft Defender for Cloud secures cloud-native and AI workloads by enabling proactive posture management through built-in guardrails and integrated GitHub Advanced Security support across the application lifecycle.

Are you prepared to seize the growing opportunity in data security? With Microsoft Purview, organizations gain end-to-end visibility into their data landscape, from on-premises to cloud environments. See how the Data Security solution play empowers you to develop practical, scalable engagement models for organizations of any size—including guidance for securing generative AI scenarios. Leverage resources & incentives to protect customer data, build trust, and unlock new business growth.

Join this hands-on lab to explore Azure Arc for hybrid and multicloud environments. You’ll onboard Windows VMs, enable monitoring with Azure Monitor, apply compliance with Machine Configuration, and strengthen security using Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Wrap up by enabling Arc agent auto-upgrade to keep resources secure and current.

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Get a step-by-step walkthrough for Microsoft Defender XDR and learn how to implement key capabilities. Learn how to assign preset security policies for Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Protect your endpoints using Microsoft Defender Endpoint by onboarding devices and configuring roles and device groups. Lastly, dive into the advanced attack mitigation features for your devices using Defender for Endpoint to effectively investigate alerts and incidents.

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Unexpected spikes in log volume left Yale New Haven Health, Connecticut's largest healthcare system, struggling with soaring SIEM costs and operational inefficiencies. In this session, hear how the team used Cribl to cut log volume by 40%, centralize data telemetry from 30k+ endpoints, and accelerate migration to Microsoft Sentinel in just two weeks. Learn how to control costs, streamline operations, and strengthen security posture with a modern telemetry data management strategy.

Attendees will learn to enable Defender for Cloud, navigate its dashboard, and interpret regulatory compliance and workload protection insights. The labs also cover secure score analysis, security recommendations, inventory management, pricing models, and governance rule assignment. By the end of the series, participants will be equipped to proactively identify and mitigate threats, strengthen cloud security posture, and align with organizational governance standards.

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As security data grows, it is critical for organizations to balance business outcomes and budgets. In this session, discover how Microsoft Sentinel data lake simplifies data management, accelerates AI adoption and optimizes costs. Serving as the foundation of the Microsoft Sentinel platform, it unifies all security data for greater visibility, deeper analysis, and contextual awareness. We’ll share real-world examples, tools, and best practices to help you maximize Microsoft Sentinel value.

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) has become an increasingly important pilar for organizations to make sure their data security programs are well established, properly working, and continuously improved. To enable data security teams to secure their data more effectively, we’re now bringing the new generation of Microsoft Purview DSPM, going beyond visibility and bringing in actionable insights to address organizations’ top data risks. Join this session to explore how Microsoft Purview DSPM is helping reshape data security posture taking data protection to the next level!

Connection Pods accommodate up to 15 people. Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

AI workloads require a fast and secure data infrastructure that works seamlessly. Learn how Azure Blob storage scales for OpenAI, how Azure Container Storage and Blobfuse2 ensure GPUs never sit idle, how to simplify integration with Ray/KAITO for AI apps on AKS, and how Blob storage integrates with AI services and frameworks to securely convert your enterprise data to AI-ready data. You’ll leave with best practices to drive performance, security, and developer velocity with Azure Storage.