# Publications & Whitepapers

> Selected talks, technical guidance, and thought leadership on securing generative AI, agentic systems, cloud, and Kubernetes.

## Conference talks

- **Microsoft Build 2025** — Securing APIs: A Gateway to Your AI Workloads
- **Microsoft Ignite 2024** — Hands on Securing Azure
- **Educause 2025** — Security for Multi-Cloud Institutions
- **Educause 2024** — Securing AWS and Azure Using Native Capabilities
- **AWS re:Invent 2020** — Ransomware, Are You Prepared?
- **AWS Public Sector Summit 2021** — Preparing for Ransomware

## Microsoft Tech Community — Securing Gen AI workloads

- [Securing multi-cloud Gen AI workloads using Azure-native capabilities](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/securing-multi-cloud-gen-ai-workloads-using-azure-native/ba-p/4222728)
- [Protecting Azure AI workloads using Threat Protection for AI in Defender for Cloud](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftdefendercloudblog/protecting-azure-ai-workloads-using-threat-protection-for-ai-in-defender-for-clo/4378474)
- [Securing GenAI workloads in Azure: a complete guide to monitoring and threat protection](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftdefendercloudblog/securing-genai-workloads-in-azure-a-complete-guide-to-monitoring-and-threat-prot/4463145)
- [Part 2 — Building security observability into your code: defensive programming for GenAI](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/MicrosoftDefenderCloudBlog/part-2-building-security-observability-into-your-code---defensive-programming-fo/4464221)
- [Part 3 — Unified Security Intelligence: orchestrating GenAI threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftdefendercloudblog/part-3-unified-security-intelligence---orchestrating-genai-threat-detection-with/4477556)

## Microsoft Tech Community — Kubernetes security with Microsoft Sentinel

- [Monitoring Kubernetes clusters, image build environment, and container registries with Sentinel](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sentinel-blog/monitoring-kubernetes-clusters-image-build-environment-and/ba-p/4062115)
- [How to set up Sentinel data connectors for Kubernetes and GitHub](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sentinel-blog/how-to-set-up-sentinel-data-connectors-for-kubernetes-and-github/ba-p/4068994)
- [Setting up Sentinel for Kubernetes monitoring](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftsentinelblog/setting-up-sentinel-for-kubernetes-monitoring/4118593)

## Microsoft Tech Community and DarkReading — Native-first cloud security

- [A native-first cloud security approach](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/native-first-cloud-security-approach/ba-p/4102367)
- [Unleashing the power of Microsoft Defender for Cloud's unique capabilities](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/unleashing-the-power-of-microsoft-defender-for-cloud-unique/ba-p/4102392)
- [Reconsider your CNAPP strategy using these 5 scenarios](https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/reconsider-your-cnapp-strategy-using-these-5-scenarios) (DarkReading)
- [Why a native-first approach is key to cloud security](https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/why-a-native-first-approach-is-key-to-cloud-security) (DarkReading)

## AWS — Ransomware resilience

- AWS Ransomware Risk Management on AWS Using the NIST CSF (AWS Whitepaper)
- [AWS re:Invent 2020: Ransomware, Are You Prepared?](https://youtu.be/JQ4LWp3Bf20)
- AWS Self-Assessment Toolkit — a security and ransomware-preparedness self-assessment tool adopted broadly across the AWS public-sector customer base

## Earlier writing and speaking

- **Pen Test Magazine, Sept 2019** — "API Security Using Zero Trust"
- **UConn CISO Summit 2016** — Panelist
- **TakeDownCon 2016** — Developing Actionable Threat Intelligence
- **NEACS (Northeast Annual Cybersecurity Summit) 2015** — Leveraging Threat Intelligence
- Author, *Secrets of Blockchain* (Udemy / Teachable)

## Related content on this site

- [The AI Control-Plane Pattern](/content/pattern.md)
- [AI Control-Plane Architecture](/content/control-plane.md)
- [Agent Security & Governance Framework](/content/agent-security.md)
- [GenAI Observability Model](/content/observability.md)