Navigating the Azure Cloud at Digitec Galaxus & Breaching your Azure Environment

IN-PERSON meetup at NEW LOCATION.
Due to the high demand we have to move this meetup to the Digicomp Learning Center Zurich.

Please note:

• Please do only reserve a seat, if you really plan to attend.
• Seats are not limited. No need to "block" a seat.
• If you will attend, please register quickly
• Please unregister if you cannot make it.

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AGENDA

• 18:00 Welcome
• 18:05 Session 1: Navigating the Azure Cloud at Digitec Galaxus: Our Journey and Lessons Learned by Olivier Girard & Gerald Schermann
• 19:10 Drinks, Food and Networking
• 19:40 Session 2: How Criminals Breach your Azure Environment by Marco Schmidt & Manu Meyer
• 21:00 end

Session 1: Navigating the Azure Cloud at Digitec Galaxus: Our Journey and Lessons Learned by Olivier Girard & Gerald Schermann

Our story starts in 2015 with our on-prem .NET monolith running on Windows Server, accompanied by a single, clunky MS SQL database, powered by fusion-io disks and many other touchable hardware in a server-room - all built-up with about 5 teams back then. Today, our system is highly distributed and modular, entirely operating in the cloud, and processing significantly more data. It is continuously developed and maintained by over 45 Scrum teams. In our talk, we will delve into our experiences spanning the last 9 years – discussing how we work and organize ourselves, tracing the evolution of our system architecture up to the present, and, of course, exploring the role Azure plays in it all. Spoiler: not everything has always gone according to plan…

About Olivier:
Olivier works as a Domain Architect at Digitec Galaxus since 2018 and helps build the Platform and Online Shop.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/oligirard/

About Gerald:
Gerald works as a Software Architect at Digitec Galaxus. He started in 2019 and works in a platform team.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerald-schermann/

Session 2: How Criminals Breach your Azure Environment by Marco Schmidt & Manu Meyer

In this session we look at how malicious attackers exploit even the slightest misconfigurations in your Azure environment. We go over typical MITRE attack techniques, such as phishing, credential enumeration, brute force password spraying and verification bypass and show how they are applied to Azure.

About Marco:
Marco Schmidt works as a Security Engineer at GrabX Solutions. He helps customers to fortify their Azure environments and avoid common Cybersecurity pitfalls. He has a talent to get a comprehensive understanding of a customers Cybersecurity posture in no time.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-schmidt-securityguy/

About Manu:
Manu is an Azure Infrastructure Enthusiast, Speaker and Community Guy at GrabX Solutions. He is a Microsoft MVP and has many years of experience in large enterprise customer projects with a focus on Microsoft technologies. In his spare time, he speaks at conferences and organizes the Azure Zurich User Group (http://azurezurichusergroup.com) and .NET Day Switzerland (https://dotnetday.ch). His interests are in Cloud Architecture & Design, Performance Management, Troubleshooting and Development. He lives at https://www.manuelmeyer.net.

The event is, as always, free of charge and held in English.

Please reserve a seat and cancel if you cannot make it. Thank you!

This event is sponsored by Digitec Galaxus (https://www.galaxus.ch/en/wiki/528) Thanks a lot for supporting the Swiss Azure Community!