

Vanessa Toves
Microsoft 365 Solutions Architect | Data Security, Druva
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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When I was young I wanted to be an architect. As it turns out, I'm a different type of architect. I am a Microsoft 365 Solutions Architect.
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Strengthen cyber resilience for Entra ID and Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Dynamics 365 form the backbone of many business operations, seamlessly integrating to drive efficiency and innovation. However, this interconnected power also expands the attack surface, increasing the potential risk of data loss and security breaches. Protecting your critical data across these platforms is no longer optional—it’s essential to ensuring business continuity and swift recovery from cyber incidents. In this session, we’ll uncover the key vulnerabilities and provide actionable strategies to strengthen your data security posture against evolving threats
PowerBI is bad ass and here's why...
I've lived in the reporting and dashboard space for a long time. I remember converting 1600 reports over from Crystal Reports to the first release of SSRS. Yes! It's been that long. That’s why I can say that PowerBI, although not perfect, is absolutely one of the best tools Microsoft has released in years. I’ll talk about stuff and then we’ll walk through building out a dashboard and reporting solution.
Knowledge Management + Microsoft 365 = Bad Ass
Knowledge management is the practice of organizing and bringing information together as a whole. It involves a concerted effort and commitment by an organization to promote a single source and to deliver that information to users in a relevant and efficient manner. It is not a technology, software application or platform. We will explore the questions centered around Microsoft 365 of "Can it be used?", "Should it be used? "How can be it used?", and "What should I consider?".
Cyber Resilience for Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365 & Entra ID
Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Entra ID form the backbone of many business operations, seamlessly integrating to drive efficiency and innovation. However, this interconnected data also expands the attack surface, increasing the potential risk of data loss and security breaches. Protecting your critical data across these platforms is no longer optional—it’s essential to ensuring business continuity and swift recovery from cyber incidents. In this session, we’ll uncover the key vulnerabilities and provide actionable strategies to strengthen your data security posture against evolving threats
Architecting an end to end data driven solution in 365
Business problems that need data driven solutions don't all require massive investments in infrastructure (native or cloud). We will discover the power of solution architecture and Microsoft 365 apps to solve everyday business problems.
What should you know before you write that first line of code for Microsoft 365
You're getting ready for a new project for 365. You're a software developer / engineer and your go to is a custom application. You know the APIs, you know how to write code. You're ready to go. You may even have another project similar so you could just copy that and change a few things around.
Do you know what the security posture is of the organization? Do you understand the roles that will be using your solution? Do you know what the organization has planned for 365?
The application you create is only one part of what will make it successful. We will discuss a series of topics that can help the successful rollout and adoption of your next custom or customized solution for Microsoft 365.
How data visualization drives adoption for your knowledge management program
So you have or want to build a knowledge management program for your organization. Oftentimes, reporting is last on the list of features to consider. Reporting, dashboards, data visualization should be at the forefront of any km program. With it you can not only drive adoption but it can be supporting facts to the support you may need to grow your team or gain approval for upgrading your licensing.
Be Ready: Protecting Microsoft 365 Data from Cyber Attacks
Your company has made significant investments in Microsoft 365—through licenses, solutions, and dedicated staff. With growing threats to the Microsoft ecosystem, it's crucial that you understand your role in responding to cyber attacks. Every Microsoft 365 professional needs to be aware of the NIST 2.0 framework and the expectations of your role to ensure a swift, effective defense.
In this session, you will deepen your knowledge in these critical areas, empowering you to protect your organization and contribute to a more effective, coordinated response to cyber attacks.
Cyber security, data security, data protection
Hell yes you can create an Employee Recognition solution using Microsoft 365
With Microsoft 365 you have the underlying apps to provide an end to end solution with employee recognition. Let's break down the architecture, build out where you collect information, process and extend the data with Power Automate (I still call it Flow in my mind), communicate status and get approvals using Exchange Online and Teams and absolutely, visualize the data with the best app ever..PowerBI.
Regardless of the size of your organization, you have options when managing Employee Recognition.
Let's build an Employee Recognition solution together!
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