Acknowledgments

This book covers a diverse and complex set of security-related topics. When writing a book like this, we as authors must make sure our facts are straight and our guidance is correct. We can do this only by asking questions of and obtaining assistance from people in the Azure product groups and people who are experts in their respective fields. To this end, we’d like to graciously acknowledge the help and assistance from the following people at Microsoft:

Amar Gowda, Amaury Chamayou, Anthony Nevico, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Barry Dorrans, Ben Co, Ben Hanson, Ben Oberhaus, Bhuvaneshwari Krishnamurthi, Dan Simon, David Nunez Tejerina, Dhruv Iyer, Eric Beauchesne, Eustace Asanghanwa, Hannah Hayward, Jack Richins, Jakub Szymaszek, Jenny Hunter, Joachim Hammer, Jon Lange, John Lambert, Josh Brown-White, Ken St. Cyr, Kozeta Garrett, Luciano Raso, Mark Simos, Michael McReynolds, Michael Withrow, Mirek Sztajno, Nicholas Kondamudi, Niels Ferguson, Panagiotis Antonopoulos, Pieter Vanhove, Prasad Nelabhotla, Rafael Pazos Rodriguez, Robert Jarret, Rohit Nayak, Run Cai, Sameer Verkhedkar, Shubhra Sinha, Srđan Božović, Steven Gott, Sylvan Clebsch, Taylor Bianchi, Thomas Weiss, Vikas Bhatia, and Yuri Diogenes

Other Microsoft colleagues acted in a consulting capacity, spending hours helping with some of the more complex parts of the book. They are:

Kyle Marsh, Mark Morowczynski, and Bailey Bercik (for identity); Dave Thaler, Graham Berry, and Vikas Bhatia (for confidential computing); and Hervey Wilson (for Key Vault)

We also got feedback from people outside of Microsoft for their specific expertise:

Arun Prabhakar (Boston Consulting Group), Avi Douglen (Bounce Security), Brook S. E. Schoenfield (True Positives, LLC), Dave Kaplan (AMD), David Litchfield (Apple), Donna McCally (HITRUST), Izar Tarandach (Squarespace), Lotfi Ben Othmane (Iowa State University), Mark Bode (AMD), Mark Cox (RedHat), Mark Curphey (Crash Override), Matthew Coles (Dell Technologies), Michael F. Angelo (Micro Focus), Mike Dietz and Robert Seacord (Woven Planet), and Shane Gashette and Steve Christey Coley (MITRE)

We’d like to thank our technical reviewers, who scrutinized every aspect of our drafts. The technical reviewers were:

Altaz Valani (Security Compass), Hasan Yasar (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon), Jonathan Davis (Microsoft), Mike Becker (Microsoft), and Rick Alba (Microsoft)

This book would not have been possible without the folks at Pearson/Microsoft Press: Loretta Yates for saying “yes”; Charvi Arora, who kept us marching forward to hit our dates; and finally, Kate Shoup, who did a magnificent job editing our text and yet maintaining our tone and technical intent.

Finally, we’d like to thank Scott Guthrie for writing the foreword and for leading the magnificent team that is Microsoft Azure.

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