Cloud, Containers, and Microservices

W04 Securing Your Cloud Applications with Identity and Networking Best Practices

March 18th, 2026

8:00am - 9:15am

Level: Intermediate

Thiago Almeida

PM for Serverless

Microsoft

In this session you'll learn techniques and best practices that experts use to improve their security posture for managed cloud applications in Azure including how to properly configure managed identities for applications, microservices and APIs; how to deploy securely; and and private networking techniques to get your apps locked down tight. We'll go through several IaC techniques to make it easier and more repeatable to do this in the future.

You will learn:

  • Security practices for PaaS on Azure
  • Private networking techniques to lock down services
  • Identity best practices for serverless / PaaS