Author Bios

Tim Warner

Tim Warner is a Microsoft MVP and technical instructor based in Nashville, TN. Tim has over 20 years of experience as an IT generalist and trainer. You can find Tim on Twitter (@TechTrainerTim) or his website, TechTrainerTim.com.

Yuri Diogenes

Yuri has a master of science in cybersecurity intelligence and forensics investigation (Utica College) and is the principal program manager of Microsoft’s CxE Defender for Cloud, where he primarily helps customers onboard and deploy Microsoft Defender for Cloud as part of their security operations/incident response. Yuri has been working for Microsoft since 2006 in different positions, including five years as senior support escalation engineer for the CSS Forefront Edge team, and from 2011 to 2017 for the content development team, where he also helped create the Azure Security Center content experience since its GA launch in 2016. Yuri has published a total of 26 books, mostly about information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri also holds an MBA and many IT/Security industry certifications, such as CISSP, E|CND, E|CEH, E|CSA, E|CHFI, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Cloud Essentials Certified, Mobility+, Network+, CASP, CyberSec First Responder, MCSE, and MCTS. You can follow Yuri on Twitter at @yuridiogenes.

Orin Thomas

ORIN THOMAS Orin Thomas is a principal cloud operations advocate at Microsoft and has written more than three dozen books for Microsoft Press covering topics including Windows Server, Windows Client, Azure, Microsoft 365, Office 365, System Center, Exchange Server, Security, and SQL Server. He has authored Azure Architecture courses at Pluralsight, has authored multiple Microsoft Official Curriculum and EdX courses on a variety of IT Pro topics, and is completing a Doctor of Information Technology on cloud computing security and compliance at Charles Sturt University. You can follow him on Twitter at @orinthomas.