South Coast User Group - 6th May 2025

19:00 - 19:40 -Data Defence: Blocking Shadow AI and Empowering with Copilot, Alex Hazeldine

Discover the potential threats of Shadow AI and how free generative AI tools can lead to data leaks. We'll cover methods to block these tools and highlight how you need to provide your employees with reliable and safe AI solutions like Copilot to protect your business data.

19:40 - 20:10 - Food

20:10 - 20:50 - Jonathan D’Aloia - Standardise your deployments with Azure Verified Modules.

In this session I am going to be talking through some of the common pain points and challenges that organisations face when it comes to standardising their Infrastructure as Code deployment templates and how these can be solved by leveraging Azure Verified Modules.
I'll be starting from the ground up on demonstrating the traditional process orgainsations take when developing IAC and how this can be streamlined to ensure the scalability and reliability of deployments through Azure Verified Modules.

I'll also cover the two different flavours that are currently supported (BICEP and Terraform) to ensure all parties are satisfied.