At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Steven Judd and Sean Wheeler will lead an all-day PowerShell toolmaking lab for IT pros ready to move beyond one-off scripts and build reusable, documented, pipeline-friendly modules.
At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, John O'Neill, Sr. will lead a full-day Security Copilot boot camp designed to help security analysts, SOC managers and IT pros move from basic prompts to repeatable investigations, custom promptbooks and automated response workflows.
At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Microsoft MVP Louis Mastelinck will lead an all-day lab on advanced Microsoft Entra Conditional Access design, helping IT and security pros turn policy theory into tested cloud access controls.
Pavan Reddy's full-day TechMentor/Cybersecurity Live! hands-on lab shows teams how to attack, test, harden and document real-world RAG and agentic AI systems before they become production security risks.
At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, 21-time Microsoft MVP Derek Melber will show Active Directory administrators how to use PowerShell for faster administration, bulk changes, security checks and Group Policy work.
At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Microsoft MVPs Joy Apple and Diego Domingos da Silva will share community-tested lessons for preparing Microsoft 365 tenants, people and content for Copilot success.
At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Myron Helgering's "How to Protect Your Business from the Threat of Unmanaged Devices" will explore practical ways to reduce risk when users access business resources from devices IT does not control.
At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Tatu Seppälä's "Insider Threat: First Aid for a Misunderstood Risk Vector" will show attendees how to turn identity, data protection, and signal correlation into a practical starting point for insider risk defense.
At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Alex de Jong's "Build-a-Bot" session promises a practical look at how Microsoft Copilot, MCP, and modern orchestration tools can turn AI agents into useful workflow teammates.
Large language models can accelerate IT and security work, but only when teams pair speed with guardrails. At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Heather Wilde Renze's session explores how to use AI like a capable junior engineer -- useful, fast, and always supervised.
At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Pavan Reddy's "When AI Tools Go Rogue: Securing Agents, MCP, and Dev Assistants" will examine the risks emerging as AI copilots move from chat windows into real systems, and the concrete controls teams need to keep those tools from becoming attack paths.
Microsoft’s Rob Hindman will preview the future of failover clustering in Windows Server at TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, with a focus on update orchestration, admission control and resilient private cloud infrastructure.
As AI moves from experimentation to production, IT teams are increasingly responsible for making sure it is secure, governable, reliable and cost-effective. This session explores what that looks like in practice, with Eric D. Boyd outlining the architectural, operational and security considerations organizations need to address to run AI at enterprise scale.
Stephen L. Rose's TechMentor session offers IT pros a practical, beginner-friendly path into Copilot automation, including agents, prompts, connectors, actions and the governance controls needed to manage them securely.
An in-depth look at how Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has damaged not just budgets but the trust, talent, and ecosystem that once made VMware central to enterprise IT.
Tom Fenton spotlights five startups to watch at KubeCon 2025--TestifySec, Chkk, Border0, DevZero, and Syntasso’s Kratix--each tackling key challenges in security, reliability, and developer productivity across the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem.
Tom Fenton examines how the VMware community is processing Broadcom’s acquisition through the five stages of grief, detailing impacts on licensing, partner programs, culture, and the shift toward VCF 9, private AI, containers, and event-driven architectures.
With Explore (FKA VMworld), VMware's annual conference, less than a month away, Tom Fenton thought he would go back and look at five previous VMworld/Explores that have reshaped the IT world.
This year looks pretty solid, Tom says, especially with VMware's big push to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 and the transformational changes we see in AI.
It just became free for commercial use along with earlier permission for personal use, so Tom Fenton shares some of the cool things you can do with this venerable virtualization platform.