Cloud Security Podcast: Proactive Security in Azure and Avoiding Common Mistakes!
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Why is Proactive Security so important in 2025? Cloud Security Podcast spoke to Sam Kirkman Director of Services, EMEA at Black Hat Europe about Proactive Security in Azure, and Avoiding Common Mistakes! Sam spoke about how attackers are becoming increasingly creative, how planning is progress, and how Proactive Security is all about getting ahead of the game. He also highlighted how implementing controls can be perceived as getting in the way of people being able to do their job. But if you invest time on this, and are proactive about setting it up by engaging with the stakeholders in your organization, you can implement controls that work really nicely with their workflow. And in the long run, you can actually make life easier for your teams! It just takes that extra bit of proactive time and effort.
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