Michalis Michalos
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft | Europe South Threat Protection Lead | Microsoft Security MVP Alumni
Athens, Greece
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Michalis is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and serves as the Europe South Threat Protection Lead. His previous position was Cyber Resilience and Intelligence Manager at Alpha Bank’s Cyber Security & Information Security Business Area, where he oversaw—among other functions—the Alpha Bank CSIRT (AB‑CSIRT).
With more than 15 years of experience in the ICT industry, Michalis has focused exclusively on cybersecurity since 2019, when he joined PCCW Global. His expertise spans cyber resilience, threat protection, and security operations across large enterprise environments.
Michalis holds a degree in Electrical Engineering, an MSc in Networking and Data Communications from Kingston University London, and an MBA from the Hellenic Open University. He also maintains multiple industry certifications, including Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate, Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate, and Certified MITRE ATT&CK Defender.
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From phish to privilege: how threat actors attack Azure
Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud technologies, accelerating digital transformation, with artificial intelligence playing a key role in enhancing this process. However, as companies migrate to the cloud, their attack surface also expands significantly, making security a critical consideration.
This session will examine various methods attackers use to compromise Azure environments, focusing on common vulnerabilities such as misconfigurations and excessive privileges often present in organizations. We will also demonstrate a common attack chain where attackers go from a successful phishing to Azure’s privileged access.
We will also cover best practices for configuring defenses that help monitor, identify, and respond to threats. Additionally, we will describe how Microsoft’s Security stack can support organizations in strengthening their overall security posture and achieving cyber resilience.
Whether you’re experienced in red teaming or defense, or work as a developer or automation engineer, this session seeks to demonstrate how cloud environments can be compromised and what everyone should know to help maintain a resilient cloud setup.
Shedding light to uncovered vulnerabilities with the MDVM add-on
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management (MDVM) has come a long way and has become an indispensable part of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) and the whole Microsoft Defender XDR ecosystem. Apart from common inventories (devices, vulnerabilities, configurations, software etc) Microsoft has introduced MDVM add-on for MDE (included in Defender for Cloud P2) which introduce capabilities similar to super powers, including browser extensions assessments, vulnerable applications blocking end others.
In this session we will go through the capabilities of the MDVM add-on, introducing some KQL queries to help operationalize further the MDVM add-on and assist with some practical ideas of why this extra license might be worth it.
Staying ahead of Threats - Building Hunts in Microsoft Sentinel
Take a step forward from building queries in your Log Analytics Workspace or the Advanced Hunting blade in Defender XDR, and conduct end-to-end proactive threat hunting in Microsoft Sentinel. From building hypothesis, going through your data, validating hypothesis to creating new Analytic Rules, enriching your Threat Intelligence or even identifying a new Incident, this presentation will cover the capacity of Hunting, to help your organization stay ahead of Threats.
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Michalis Michalos
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft | Europe South Threat Protection Lead | Microsoft Security MVP Alumni
Athens, Greece
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