Events & Community

If you missed the live stream, no worries! Starting today, all the videos from the AperiTeams Conference (Modern Workplace Day) 2024, organized by Inside Technologies, are available online. It was my first participation and I had a great time, as always during such days where training and networking come together. Here’s the complete video of my session, where I discussed how Microsoft Defender XDR represents a significant step forward towards a unified tool for managing the security of our infrastructure, whether it’s in the cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud.

🚨 New episode of Copilot for Pod… oops… no… sorry, I meant Defender for Podcast! 🤣 With all these Copilots, I’m getting a bit carried away! Caught up in a frenzy of memes and various quotes (absolute gems not to be missed), Marco Moioli (henceforth known as Mar-Copilot) and I couldn’t miss the opportunity to talk about the current star: Copilot for Security! We’ll explore what it is, how it integrates with various Microsoft products, and, most importantly, share our impressions on the significant value this product brings.

Spring event season is in full swing! I’ll be among the speakers at the Global Azure event in Turin, alongside Pietro Visentin. We’ll be discussing Conditional Access: the latest updates, best practices, and why it’s becoming an increasingly vital tool in Zero Trust Security strategies. 🗓️ Saturday, April 20 📍 Turin - Fondazione ITS ICT - Via Jacopo Durandi, 13 🎟️ Info and registration I have a special connection to the Global Azure event in Turin, and I can’t wait to be there!

Morning at Microsoft Ignite Italy 2024, before heading to the watch party organized by Microsys!

Folks, I’m excited: I can finally announce that I will also be participating in the AperiTeams event on April 3rd, in the beautiful setting of the Microsoft House in Milan! When Silvio Di Benedetto invited me, I accepted with great joy! Here are all the details to participate. 👇🏻 📆 Wednesday, April 3 ⌚ 4:00 PM 🎟️ Registration: https://www.aperiteams.it In the session, I will talk about how Microsoft Defender XDR is a huge step towards a single control panel to oversee all aspects of security in our environment.

We’re getting used to it! Here we are with the second episode of Defender for Podcast, where we talk about training! We’ll try to organize the multitude of resources available for training in Microsoft Security: Official resources such as the Learn platform SC certifications that allow validating your skills but also the brand new Applied Skills Blogs, YouTube channels, and other useful resources 🚨 If you enjoy this content and want to make sure you don’t miss any updates, we invite you to join our community!

⚠️ 🇮🇹 To my Italian speaking followers! A few days ago, the winter edition of #POWERCON2023, an online conference organized by the ICTPower.it community, took place. It is certainly correct to say that Microsoft Intune is an MDM, and its main purpose is to manage devices. However, paraphrasing a famous song from the ’80s, “beyond the endpoints, there is more”! Intune is, in fact, the pivotal tool through which to implement and deploy an infinite variety of security settings, in addition to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint configurations.

⚠️ 🇮🇹 To my Italian speaking followers! WPC 2023 is also about coming together in person and quickly organizing new community activities! That’s exactly what happened with Carlo Sacchi, the host of Azure Italia Podcast, whom I finally had the chance to meet in person. After exchanging greetings, in less than 10 minutes, we had already organized a post-WPC 2023 chat, along with friends Pietro Visentin, Stefano Nieri, and Andrea Palumbo.

⚠️ 🇮🇹 To my Italian speaking followers! Just finished one event, and here I am jumping into another, one that I hold dear to my heart: thrilled to announce that I will be among the speakers at #POWERCON2023 organized by the folks at ICT Power! 📌 When? 🗓️ 6 december 2023 from 9.00 AM till 5.30 PM 🙋🏻‍♂️ My session will be at 11:00 AM 📌 Where? 💻 Online, all the details here 👇🏻

As always, WPC is a mix of emotions, meetings, and learning: experiencing all of this is always incredible. I can’t wait for WPC 2024! 😃 Without too many words, here are some snapshots from this super intense 3-day event. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Riccardo Corna (@itspecialistcloud) Your IT Specialist, Riccardo

⚠️ Warning for English-speaking followers: this podcast is in Italian language ⚠️ Fun chat, lightning-fast editing: the episode of Azure Italy Podcast that I was a guest on is already available online! 🎙️ You can find it here: ➡️ Azure Italia Podcast - Puntata 11 - Da Azure AD a Entra ID con Riccardo Corna And on all the other major podcast platforms: Apple, Amazon, etc. 😉 Beyond this episode, I recommend subscribing to the podcast so you don’t miss any: it’s rare to find content like this in the Italian language, and Carlo Sacchi is doing an excellent job!

A few days ago, the #POWERCON2023 was held, an online conference organized by the ICTPower.it community. As always, I was very happy to participate, and this year, I chose to present a session on Windows Hello for Business, discussing an aspect that I believe is underestimated and not well-known to most: Windows Hello for Business is a passwordless and multi-factor authentication! Do you want to know why and how it works?

🗓️ #SaveTheDate July 14, 2023: one last exciting event before going on vacation, the #POWERCON2023! A whole day with many sessions together with industry experts, talking about security, Microsoft Entra, Intune, Virtual Desktop and Windows 365, Defender for Endpoint, and much more. In short, I would probably run out of characters in a LinkedIn post if I wanted to list everything. 🗓️ When? 14 Luglio 2023 🌍 Where? Online, all the information to register can be found at these links:

The video of the session Artificial Intelligence in the Service of Cybersecurity: From 0 to Microsoft Security Copilot that I held (together with Michele Sensalari) at Be Connected Day 11 on June 15, 2023, in Bologna, is now available online. For convenience, I have embedded the video to start directly at the beginning of our presentation, but from the same link, you can actually watch the live stream of the entire day.

What a beautiful day I had yesterday! So many inspiring contents, lots of friends to greet, many new people to meet, and plenty of ideas to develop for the community. As always, it was a fantastic #BeConnectedDay. Thanks to BeConnected and Microsys for giving me the opportunity to participate, to Michele Sensalari, with whom I had the honor of sharing the stage, to all my colleagues in the SEC track, and lastly, to all the people from the communities I met—it’s fantastic to see each other in person!

Here we go! Tomorrow is #BeConnectedDay with Michele Sensalari and many other friends. Don’t miss our session at 15:25 in Main Room Sirio P27 for those attending in person or via streaming for those following from home! 📌 There is still time to register for the streaming! 📌 Want to learn more about our session? 📌 Complete event agenda See you tomorrow! Riccardo

Since 1994, Microsoft has been involved in device management: first with SMS, which later became SCCM, and then in 2011, with the advent of mobile devices, the Mobile Device Management service called Intune was created, which has grown… and grown… And today, it has become a suite! Let’s clarify the various pieces of technology we can find within this suite with Maura Perra, Technical Specialist in Cloud Endpoint for Microsoft!

On March 22, 2023, the Microsys event “Tech Bits: Modern Endpoint Management” took place, and now the video of the event is available! Together with the legendary Paolo Bodini, we presented the 10 key elements to consider for modern management of corporate and personal devices. Enjoy watching! Riccardo

Here we are with a new episode of “A Coffee with…”! Today’s protagonist is Elisa Pirrone, CSA Security for Microsoft Italy. Together with her, we will talk about disabling legacy protocols, creating conditional access policies, best practices, and why Windows Hello for Business is an MFA! Here are some additional links for further information: Common Conditional Access policy: Block legacy authentication Windows Hello for Business Overview How Windows Hello for Business works in Windows Devices Don’t forget to subscribe to our other channels as well:

Spring means Global Azure, and I am delighted to announce that I will be a speaker at Global Azure 2023 in Turin, taking place on Saturday, May 13, 2023! However, I won’t be alone on stage: joining me will be Pietro Visentin, Head of Security at Moresi! By the way, I recommend checking out his blog Azvise, which is full of useful and interesting content. For all the details about the agenda, it will take a few more days, so staytuned and don’t miss the event updates that you can find here:

Today’s episode is a true injection of caffeine and valuable resources: Valeria Sava talks to us about ADFS and how to retire it by migrating applications to Azure AD. Are you interested? Yes? Then after watching the video, don’t miss this workshop in Italian dedicated to this very topic! Valeria and I extensively discussed it while enjoying our coffee. Here are all the details! 🗓️ March 28, 2023 ➡️ Microsoft Workshops: How to successfully migrate away from AD FS to Azure AD

On March 8, 2023, a joint event was held between the Microsoft Intune Italian Users Group and the Microsoft Security Italian Users Group: the video of the sessions is now available. Together with the legendary Michele Sensalari, we talked about certificate-based authentication on Azure AD. Marco Moioli and Davide Salsi, on the other hand, delved into how to use the MAM (Mobile Application Management) features of Intune to provide security in BYOD scenarios, and Davide also demonstrated the new Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile.

“How can we leverage a public cloud while maintaining a proper security posture?” Today, we ask this question (while sipping a cup of coffee) to Francesco Molfese (MVP), who has a clear understanding of how to maintain the right level of security both in the cloud and on-premises. Here are some additional links for further reading: Francesco’s blog Defender for Cloud Don’t forget to follow us on our social channels as well: