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Microsoft Ignite 2020 - Learnings

Today I attended Microsoft Ignite in Sydney. It's a 2 day event aimed at showcasing services offered by Microsoft and how they can be leveraged to solve various business problems.


Following is a braindump of my key takeaways:

Session 1: 10 Best security practices in Azure

Speaker: Abbas Kudrati

1. Azure Security center: Use the security score provided to view the current security status


2. Admin account protection

  • Multi factor authentication

  • No standing access


3. Enterprise segmentation and Zero trust preparation

  • Monitor for attacks

  • Push logs to azure security Center


4. Centralized visibility

  • Azure security and azure sentinel


5. Secure Devops


6. Security at the Core GRC - key responsible parties


7. Network and Containment

  • Choose firewall strategy


8. Use web app firewall on all internet facing applications


9. DDoS mitigation

  • Azure services comes pre-built with DDoS mitigation


10. Network

  • Deprecating legacy technology


Session 2: 10 amazing things about Edge

Speaker: Vyankatesh Gadekar


10. Enterprise new tab page

9. Microsoft search on Bing: find your documents within the company in Bing

8. Best in class developer tools - chromium as a baseline. 7. Tracking prevention - Privacy dashboard is built into the browser. 6. Multiple profiles and AAD sign in with SSO

5. Enterprise sync

4. Security stack:

  • SmartScreen

  • Application Guard - run a untrusted site in a container that is isolated from the local device conditional access - accessing a resource will depend on company policies

3. Integrated deployment with ConfigMgr or Intune

2. App assure: If your web apps works in Chrome Or IE 11, then there is a assurance that it will work in Edge

1. IE mode: is integrated into Microsoft edge. It will open all legacy websites.

Session 3: Deployment and A/B testing

Speaker: Michael Ridland

Presentation Slides


  • Various deployment slots helps to deploy to an inactive slot first, do the necessary testing and then swap those slots.

  • Canary testing: You can maintain multiple production slots and define the traffic flow for each

Why?

  • Validate changes before production

  • Eliminate downtime

  • Roll back when necessary

You can deploy into a slot as part of your build pipeline.


Session 4: Using pre-built AI to solve business problems

Speaker: David Smith


Keywords

  • Azure cognitive services

  • Custom Vision service - this is used to train the model

  • Trained convolutional NN

  • Training an image classifier

  • Transfer learning

Microsoft Personalizer: It is not a recommendation engine, it uses the neural network. It has exploit and explore mode. The idea is to exploit for performance and explore for alternate options


When working with AI, consider the following:


  • Enable people

  • Be inclusive

  • Be fair and transparent



Session 5: Containerization

Speaker: Rohan Arora


Containers helps to set up clear boundaries for your applications


Why Containers?

  • No more “works on my machine”

  • Every environment looks the same

  • Increased velocity


Docker: It is most popular container runtime. It allows to build applications, test them in local docker environment on the computer and deploy the same image to the cloud.


Dockerfile: Instructions to compose your environment

 

Here are some happy snaps from the day at the Telstra Purple booth :)








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