Andy Syrewicze
Security Evangelist & Microsoft CDM MVP
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Andy is a 20+ year IT pro specializing in Virtualization, Storage, Cloud, M365, and Infrastructure. By day he's a Technical Evangelist for Hornetsecurity, leading technical community content creation. By night he shares his IT knowledge online or over a cold beer. He holds the Microsoft MVP award in Cloud and Datacenter Management, and one of few who is also a VMware vExpert.
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Guard Your Tenant: DMARC, DKIM, and SPF for M365 Simplified!
Ready to put an end to domain spoofing and secure your Microsoft 365 tenant? Join Microsoft MVP Andy Syrewicze for a demo-heavy session where we'll demystify DMARC, DKIM, and SPF! Andy will answer the "Why?" behind these authentication protocols and walk you through the essentials and setup. No jargon included! Just straight-up, easy-to-follow guidance to make your email security rock solid and more secure!
Shhh... It's a Secret! - Secrets Management for the Modern Technology Professional
Far too often, passwords are still being put into automated workflows in plain text, in 2024! With the state of the security ecosystem in the modern era, this practice is unnecessary and frankly reckless. Want to learn a better way?
In this session, Andy will demonstrate your options for secrets management in PowerShell. This includes:
- How to manage secrets in automated processes
- How to safely retrieve remote secrets
- Build secrets generation into your tooling
- And more!
As a community, let's collectively leave fewer secrets lying around for threat actors to find! We hope to see you there!
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Do you find yourself struggling with Anxiety while trying to cultivate a successful IT career? It's not easy, and you're not alone!
With the high-pressure work that many IT Pros face in their day-to-day lives, anxiety inevitably rears its ugly head in some form. Many are able to deal with it in a healthy way, but for others, the level of anxiety varies and sometimes it's more than we can handle. Left alone, long-term anxiety can affect health, relationships, happiness, and more.
Viewed through the prism of personal experiences with a diagnosed anxiety disorder, our speaker will teach some coping skills and strategies that attendees can leverage to help deal with anxiety in their own IT Careers, such as:
- Identifying Triggers
- Finding Truths
- Mindfulness Techniques
- Exercises for Calmness you can do at your desk
- Staying Organized - Using PowerShell and VSCode!
Anxiety can be a battle of attrition, but you're not alone. Dealing with it is a learned skill, just like learning SQL, or PowerShell! Let's normalize the discussion around mental health, together!
Containers on Windows Server by the IT Pro, for the IT Pro
Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the last few years you've likely heard about containers. Microsoft shocked the industry when they announced they were bring containers to Windows Server with the Docker engine.
Historically viewed as more of a developer tool, many IT Pros have struggled with how to use containers and with understanding where they fit. Well struggle no longer!
Join Andy Syrewicze, Microsoft CDM MVP, for a 101 styled session designed to get you up to speed on container operations. In this session Andy will cover:
- What are containers?
- What is Docker
- Running Windows and Hyper-V Containers with Docker
- Running Linux Containers with Docker on Windows Server
- Intended and example use-cases for containers
After this session, you will have taken your first step with containers, and be prepared to dig into more advanced concepts on your journey to becoming a master of containers on Windows.
Andy Syrewicze
Security Evangelist & Microsoft CDM MVP
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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