Speaker

James Westall

James Westall

Senior Consultant, Arinco Australia

Melbourne, Australia

James is a Senior Consultant for Arinco Australia specialising in Azure Cloud & AWS infrastructure. James has worked closely with several organisations in architectural consulting and delivery using Microsoft Core and Cloud technologies, and can talk your ear off for days around cybersecurity, cloud native technology and DevOps practices. James hates buzzwords, and loves a good rant…

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Cloud
  • Azure
  • devops
  • Security
  • Azure Security
  • Identity

Azure AD Verifiable Credentials - Buying into the blockchain hypetrain

Over the last ten years, the rise of blockchain technologies has been on everyone's mind. For some, the value proposition of various blockchain based coins is irresistible, for others a complete scam.

One thing that can not be denied however, is the varying technology use cases which blockchain has begun to enable. Organisations are storing financial records, student data and medical information across decentralised ledgers, all underpinned by blockchain technology.

Born out of a desire to increase reliability, control and trust, Decentralised Identities are one of the many new technologies leveraging this new technology paradigm. In this hour long session, James will take you through the new Azure AD features leveraging decentralised identity, show you how to integrate your own verifiable credentials and discuss potential use cases for this exciting new technology.

Prospective Agenda
• What is decentralised identity?
• Where can decentralised identity be useful?
• An Intro to Azure AD Verifiable Credentials
• Demo: VC Issuance
• How to setup VC - Requirements & Steps
• Demo: Configuring a VC in a basic app
• Demo: Looking up VC details in the ledger network

Azure Security - Simplifying Secure Deployments

2021 has been a great year for businesses using Microsoft Azure to strengthen security. With a rapidly maturing Security ecosystem and consistent strong placement in Gartner and Forrester reviews, Azure customers have many options to leverage the full breadth of Azure's scalable solutions to suit their evolving business case, including Azure Arc, Lighthouse, Security Center, Policy, Sentinel & Azure Defender.

In this session, James will take you through the essential areas and services to focus on when working across large distributed Azure deployments - and sharpen your knowledge around best practices and common considerations. Together we will deep dive into the key areas of Identity and Access Management, Service design, Threat Detection and response. The best Azure products to integrate in each area, and the essential steps to tick off for a successful SECURE large scale deployment.

Azure Spring Clean 2022 Sessionize Event

March 2022

Azure Community Conference 2021 Sessionize Event

October 2021

James Westall

Senior Consultant, Arinco Australia

Melbourne, Australia