Uli Homann, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Cloud and AI, welcomes viewers to the Tech Accelerator event “Azure Security and AI Adoption,” teeing up six sessions that span security capabilities in Azure datacenters and hardware, built-in Azure platform protections, and strategies for staying secure during an Azure migration. He’s joined by David Blank-Edelman, SRE Academy project lead, for an “armchair architect” conversation on applying a zero-trust approach to Azure and AI projects—treating every component (including the model) as potentially untrusted, leaning hard on identity, least-privileged access, encryption, and continuous monitoring, and designing guardrails that reduce risk from AI-specific threats. Along the way, they call out responsible AI principles and the Azure Well-Architected Framework, where Azure AI Content Safety fits in, and how Microsoft Defender for Cloud can help protect AI applications. Later, Eric Charran joins to unpack zero-trust architecture in more practical terms—continuous verification, device posture, policy, and the “trust comes through validation” mindset that keeps hybrid systems honest.
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The inevitable sequels
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