Welcome to the Castle
Azure, AI and cybersecurity,
run as a tabletop adventure
The Securing the Realm podcast, talks and writeups, from Chris Lloyd-Jones and Josh McDonald. For the people who have to deploy AI and then defend it.
Chris Lloyd-Jones & Josh McDonaldMicrosoft MVPs21 talks and videos
Map of the Realm
Every part of the realm, one keep. Pick a door.
Quest Log
Library · Blog
One Key to the Whole Dungeon
The first Arcane Scrolls dispatch: APIM's AI Gateway in preview, a token cache that leaks between tenants, and two retirement dates for the diary.
Moon · Shorts
When AI Deletes Your Code: Whoops (opens in new tab)
What happens when AI deletes your codebase? Whoops!
Tower · Talks
AI Operationalisation
Nema Sobhani, a data scientist at Avanade, discusses the concept of agents in AI and their impact on human activities.
Tower · Talks
MVP Summit - Agentic Security Roundup
The evolving landscape of AI and securing it, focusing on regulatory and legal drivers, the commoditization of AI, security & governance challenges, open source and commodification, and the nature of observability.
Moon · Shorts
Agentic AI - Quickfire with Kevin McDonnell (opens in new tab)
Imagine AI could just join the conversation. Not because you asked it to - but because it knew when to.
Listen to the Podcast
Chris Lloyd-Jones and Josh McDonald run cloud security and Microsoft AI as a tabletop campaign, where the monsters are misconfigurations and the loot is an architecture that holds.
The Party
We run large language models, small language models and agentic systems on Azure as a campaign: architecture and live demos on one side of the screen, kobolds at the gate and AI elves in training on the other. The Crystal Keep still refuses to give up its secrets.
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