About the Authors

Yuri Diogenes, MsC has a Master’s of Science in cybersecurity intelligence and forensics investigation (UTICA College) and is a Principal Program Manager for the Microsoft CxE Azure Security Center Team. Primarily, Yuri helps customers onboard and deploy Azure Security Center and works with the ASC Engineering Team for continuous improvement of the product. Yuri has been working for Microsoft since 2006 in different positions, including five years as Senior Support Escalation Engineer for the CSS Forefront Edge Team, and from 2011 to 2017 as a member of the content development team, where he also helped create the Azure Security Center content experience after its launch in 2016. Yuri has published a total of 23 books, mostly about information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri also holds an MBA and many IT/Security industry certifications, such as CISSP, E|CND, E|CEH, E|CSA, E|CHFI, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Cloud Essentials Certified, Mobility+, Network+, CASP, CyberSec First Responder, MCSE, and MCTS. You can follow Yuri on Twitter at @yuridiogenes.

Orin Thomas is a Principal Cloud Operations Advocate at Microsoft and has written more than three dozen books for Microsoft Press on topics including Windows Server, Windows Client, Azure, Microsoft 365, Office 365, System Center, Exchange Server, Security, and SQL Server. He has authored Azure Architecture courses at Pluralsight, has authored multiple Microsoft Official Curriculum and EdX courses on a variety of IT Pro topics, and is completing a Doctorate of Information Technology on cloud computing security and compliance at Charles Sturt University. You can follow him on twitter at @orinthomas.