Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Loretta Yates and the entire Microsoft Press/ Pearson team for their support in this project, Gilad Elyashar for writing the foreword, and also our friends from Defender for Cloud Engineering in Israel: Or Serok Jeppa, Meital Taran-Gutman, Ron Matchoro, Tamer Salman, Ram Pliskin, Lior Arviv, Melvyn Mildiner, Amit Biton, Omer Chechik, Arik Noyman, Liron Kachko, Denis Mizetski, Ofir Monza, Shahar Razon, Yael Genut, Inbal Argov, Eitan Shteinberg, Ido Keshet, Maya Herskovic, Tomer Spivak, Miri Kreitenberger, Aviv Mor, Tal Rosler, Netta Norman, Nir Sela, Elazar Krieger, Ben Mansheim, and Erel Hansav.

We also would like to thank all our teammates from the CxE MDC Team (Safeena, Stan, Fernanda, Dick, Giulio, Future, Shay, Vasavi, and Bojan), our manager Rebecca Halla for encouraging us to embrace new challenges, a special thanks to Liana Tomescu for reviewing this book and thanks to George Wilburn for writing the Defender for DevOps appendix.

Yuri would also like to thank: my wife and daughters for their endless support; my great God for giving me strength and guiding my path each step of the way; my great friend and co-author, Tom Janetscheck for this awesome partnership. Thanks to my parents for working hard to give me an education, which is the foundation I use every day to keep moving forward in my career. Last but not least, thanks to all followers of the Defender for Cloud in the Field show, and the entire Defender for Cloud community members for inspiring us to do more.

Tom would also like to thank: my wife and sons for always supporting me in whatever I do and for being my bastion of calm; my great friend and my manager and co-author, Yuri Diogenes for the awesome partnership on this project. Special thanks to Ben Kliger, who encouraged me to move out of my comfort zone and take the step into Defender for Cloud engineering. Last but not least, thanks to my friends Sarah and Dominik for all the inspiration and for letting me support you in pursuing your goals.