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As part of our Microsoft Security Week that took place from Monday 15th – Friday 19th of November 2021, we were joined by Jonathan Moore, Azure Pre-Sales Consultant at Cloud Direct, and Cassandra Browning, Cloud Security Architect at Microsoft, to discuss the Microsoft Technologies available to help maximise security. During this exclusive session, we help you understand the security tools available in the Microsoft ecosystem to help keep you secure, and why Microsoft has all the tools you need to protect your business.

As part of our Microsoft Security Week that took place from Monday 15th – Friday 19th of November 2021, we were joined by Mark Phillip, Technical Account Manager at Cloud Direct, and Cassandra Browning, Cloud Security Architect at Microsoft, to talk about how to secure your Microsoft Cloud Environment. During this exclusive session, we help you understand how to conduct a cloud security review of your Microsoft environment to help you identify any security gaps you may have.

As part of our Microsoft Security Week that took place from Monday 15th – Friday 19th of November 2021, we were joined by Phil Cordey and Julia McGourty who highlighted Key considerations for your 2022 Cloud Security Strategy. During this exclusive session, we highlighted key security trends you should be aware of when planning your cloud security strategy, and how Microsoft can support you.

As organisations around the world brace for Hybrid Working, we’d like to help you understand how you can use Microsoft 365 to increase the productivity, collaboration, well-being and security of your flexible employees. In this video series we’re taking you through our Microsoft 365 Hybrid Working Maturity Model.

We’ve developed this model to help you self-assess your Hybrid Working capabilities by highlighting some of the key Microsoft 365 solutions that are available to support your Hybrid Working strategy.

To download your free copy of the maturity model, follow the link below:

The past 2 years has fundamentally changed the way we work, and in many ways for the better. However, this change has also significantly impacted the business security landscape and left many vulnerable to a variety of cyber security threats. A Cyber Security Breaches research report released by the UK government found that the average cost of a cyber attack on a business is £8,460, and this figure rises to £13,400 for medium and large businesses.

So, how can you maintain effective security measures with employees working from anywhere?

In this video series, we’re taking a dive into the key security considerations you need to make when preparing for hybrid working.

We’ll cover:

• How to build a secure Hybrid Working strategy
• How cyber threats have evolved over the past year
• Real-world examples of breaches and how to protect against them
• How you can measure, track and report on your cyber resilience

Windows 365 combines the power and security of the cloud with the versatility and simplicity of the PC, allowing you to securely stream your personalised Windows experience from any device and making it the perfect solution for a hybrid world.

In this video series we’ll help you to understand what Windows 365 is and whether it’s a solution you should consider. Our experts cover:

• What Windows 365 is and why Microsoft launched it
• The use-case for Windows 365
• The benefits of using Windows 365
• How it compares to Azure Virtual Desktop and Citrix

Working some days at the office and some days at home has become the new norm. Question is, how do you facilitate these new flexible working patterns and capitalise on the benefits of hybrid working? In this video series, you’ll learn how you can set yourself up with success by bringing your telephony to Microsoft Teams with Teams Voice.

In this video series you’ll learn about:

• The benefit of simplifying and consolidating business processes and platforms
• How Teams Voice can support your hybrid working strategy
• Microsoft Teams devices
• The role adoption and change management plays

Find out how to create a clear migration strategy so you can move to the cloud with confidence.

Looking to create a strategy but not sure where to start? Or maybe you want to get confirmation that what you’re doing is correct? Then this webinar’s for you.

A cloud migration isn’t something that just happens overnight. It involves a huge organisational change. Meaning every step should be carefully considered and clearly mapped out.

During this video series, we’ll help you plan a clear migration strategy from start to finish. Highlighting everything you need to do in order to accelerate your journey and move with confidence.

An introduction to Zero Trust, the best practice security methodology

With the rise of Hybrid Working, security perimeters now extend beyond your office location to any access point that hosts, stores, or accesses corporate resources and services. This is why you need to consider implementing an end-to-end security strategy, such as Zero Trust.

Zero Trust is a best practice security methodology used by businesses and enterprises across the world. The Zero Trust concept is built on the belief that businesses shouldn’t trust anything inside or outside their perimeters and must verify anything and everything to connect their systems before granting access.

During this series, our experts will help you make sense of the Zero Trust best practice methodology.

How to get the most out of your investment in Azure

Join our Azure Security Fundamentals Series as Cloud Direct’s Azure Expert shows how to gain optimal value from your Azure environment. During this video series, we focus on the three core areas of managed optimisation; cost, technical performance, security and governance.

In the second instalment of our Azure Security Fundamentals Series, our Azure gurus show you how to build policies to enforce compliance within your Azure environment.

We look at how Azure’s governance services help to enforce organisational standards to assess compliance at scale and the in-built tools available to allow you to deploy policies in a repeatable manner – allowing you to speed up processes moving forward.

In the third video series in our Azure Security Fundamentals Series, our resident Azure gurus take you on an application migration best-practice journey, stopping along the way to look at the processes and tools available to protect your most valuable asset. Your data.

We’ll look at how to combat the shift from traditional security, which looked to protect your business-critical applications and data from external threats, to how to protect your business against the modern threat landscape.

Using Azure Sentinel can be overwhelming. Our Azure experts are here to help you make sense of all the information and data.

Azure Sentinel is an intelligent, cloud-native Security Information Events Manager (SIEM) platform that leverages AI to analyse sheer amounts of data across your organisation – helping you stay resilient against any threats.

It can be overwhelming looking at the information Sentinel generates – but fear not. During this video series, we’ll help you understand the data available in Sentinel and how to make informed security decisions.