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Nicolas Blank

Nicolas Blank

NBConsult, Group CEO, M365 Apps & Services, Microsoft Azure

Cape Town, South Africa

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Nicolas is the founder, as well an architect, author and speaker focused on Microsoft 365 and Azure at NBConsult Group in South Africa, England and Hong Kong.
Nicolas is a Microsoft Certified Master for Exchange and Office 365, Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for M365 Apps & Services, Microsoft Azure since March 2007.
Nicolas has co-authored the Microsoft Zero Trust adoption framework, Including Overview, Rapidly modernize your security posture, Secure remote and hybrid work with Zero Trust, Prevent or reduce business damage from a breach, “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Design, Deploy and Deliver an Enterprise Messaging Solution”, published by Sybex, as well as authoring “Azure Site Recovery: IaaS Migration and Disaster Recovery”, published by Pluralsight.
As a podcaster, Nicolas is a co-founder of and a contributor to thearchitects.cloud podcast and the SCI Fridays Show
Nicolas blogs at blankmanblog.com, tweets as @nicolasblank

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Zero Trust Security
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Security

From hype to reality - Building out scalable, real world, Zero Trust Security models

Zero Trust, 3 principles and seemingly infinite ways of implementing it in the real world. In this session we will demonstrate how to build a zero-trust strategy and implement it. You may already own all the security products you need. Sound too good to be true?
Join Microsoft Zero Trust Adoption Framework co-author Nicolas Blank, as he covers how to build, implement and mature through iteration, across business verticals for just about any company size.

Two Holy Grails and a unicorn - Building a predictable security budget using the Zero Trust Framewor

Predictable security spend – and predictable security outcomes – two seemingly unachievable holy grails that combine into an unachievable unicorn?
Security without strategy can be a black hole of security spend. By keeping up with the Jones’s, i.e. doing what other people are doing, can be a common approach to modern security. However, business strategy and security strategy can align to create a risk based financially defensible security posture.
In this assisted unicorn birthing session, Microsoft Zero Trust Adoption Framework co-author Nicolas Blank presents on how to build Zero Trust economic models in the context of the business that you are defending with the tools you already own.

Webinar

Webinar: Applying Zero Trust to Data Centre Networks

September 2023

The South African Azure User Group

Zero Trust: Move from boring guidance to actionable patterns

August 2023 Cape Town, South Africa

Webinar

Today's Top 5 Challenges with Microsoft 365

August 2023

Ignite the tour - Johannesburg

BRK20003 Outlook mobile: The gold standard for secure communications in the enterprise.
BRK30015 Exchange Hybrid: What, How and Why
BRK20005 Cloud-first Network Transformation for Microsoft 365

January 2020 Johannesburg, South Africa

ignite 2017

BRK2248 Microsoft Exchange: Through the eyes of MVPs (Panel discussion)

September 2017 Orlando, Florida, United States

Microsoft Ignite 2016

BRK3217 - Run Microsoft Exchange Hybrid for the long haul - Timothy Heeney, Nicolas Blank

September 2016 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Microsoft Ignite 2015

BRK3152 - MVPs Unplugged: Real-World Microsoft Exchange Server Designs and Deployments
BRK3194 - MVPs Unplugged: The Journey to Microsoft Exchange Online

May 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Nicolas Blank

NBConsult, Group CEO, M365 Apps & Services, Microsoft Azure

Cape Town, South Africa

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