Microsoft Azure roadshow -Erdal Ozkaya

Its announced that CISO, Erdal Ozkaya was among the key speakers at Microsoft Azure roadshow that was held recently at Abu Dhabi and Bahrain. He will also be addressing the similar roadshow in Kuwait on 2nd June 2015.

Azure is the Microsoft cloud platform, which nothing but a growing collection of integrated services—compute, storage, data, networking, and app that help businesses move faster, do more, and save money. It is the only major cloud platform ranked by Gartner as an industry leader for both infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS). This powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services lets enterprises build, deploy, and manage applications as per their choice. It runs on a growing global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters across 19 regions, giving a wide range of options for running applications and ensuring great performance.

During the roadshow, Ozkaya made a presentation, and discussed the details about Microsoft Azure Security at length. He explained the fundamentals of Azure security, including threat defense, network security, access control, and data protection as well as the commitments Azure makes to safeguard the privacy of customer data.

Expressing his delight about his participation at the roadshow, Ozkaya, stated, “It is a confluence of like-minded who have come together share their experiences and learn from each other. Roadshow like these help the whole eco system- enthusiast, developers, partners, and customers all stand to gain.”

In his presentation, Ozkaya discussed enterprise mobility, BYOD, Software as a service (SaaS), besides talking about cloud security and shared the best practices to stay secure in a computing world. In the end, he had an open forum to discuss the various security aspects with the audience.

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emt CISO highlights fundamentals of Azure security, including threat defense, network security, access control, and data protection

emt Distribution CISO Erdal Ozkaya was among the key speakers at Microsoft Azure roadshow that was held recently at Abu Dhabi and Bahrain. Ozkaya will also be addressing the Microsoft Azure community that will be gathered at the roadshow in Kuwait on 2nd June 2015.

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