Defender for Podcast - Ep. 2 - Training in Microsoft Security

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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

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🥷🏻 Microsoft Security Italian Users Group

📻 If you prefer to listen to us in the car or during a walk, you can also do so in podcast form:
🎙️ Spotify podcast
🎙️ Google podcast

Here are the links to the resources we referred to during this episode:

📌 Microsoft resources for studying
🔗 Learn platform (find information for certifications, applied skills, and more)
🔗 Ninja Trainings

📌 Interesting YouTube channels including
🔗 Microsoft Mechanics
🔗 John Savill
🔗 Azure Academy
🔗 Riccardo’s channel
🔗 Microsoft Security’s channel
🔗 Are you a Microsoft partner? Then you have access to the platform https://www.cloudchampion.it/ where you can find videos in English and Italian

📌 There are countless blogs… We mention some:
🔗 Merill Fernando who also creates a beautiful free weekly newsletter https://merill.net/
🔗 Rod Trent who focuses on threat protection https://rodtrent.substack.com/
🔗 Riccardo’s blog https://itspecialist.cloud/

📌 If you use LinkedIn don’t miss the following communities:
🔗 Microsoft Sentinel Community
🔗 Microsoft Copilot for Security Community

Is this an exhaustive list? Absolutely not… But we’re thinking of creating a community-based something that gathers all the major sources of information so leave in the comments which ones are yours!

Your IT Specialist, Riccardo