I'm using the New Year (2016) to RESET my online presents to support the community. Marshall's Current focus as a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) with Microsoft Azure and specifically with customers Azure Government.

My focus is going to support my personal goals to help others prep for and get the NEXT Cyber Security position. My BLOG Posting goals are to write more consistent with individual post that explain how Microsoft Networks are "Securely" enabled. I have a list of products and over the next few posts and plan to establish a "Security" focused roadmap. The short list includes products but also services, networking, frameworks and helpful processes & procedures:

• Microsoft Azure (overview and deeper in some features)
• ExpressRoute & Hyper-V Network Virtualization
• Azure Virtual Networks and Network Security Groups
• Azure Active Directory (AAD)
• Microsoft Active Directory (AD) on-premises
• Deep understanding of Windows Operating Systems (OS)
• System Center Management Suite
• Azure Operational Insight
• Networking technologies including: Domain Name Systems (DNS), TCP/IP,
• Knowledge of debugging and disassembly tools:

• IdaPro (or HexRays)
• OllyDbg
• WinDbg (some work)

• Assembly language for x86 & x64
• Ability to perform static and dynamic analyses of suspect binaries without access to source or debug information.
• Experience with reverse engineering binaries and exploit code
• Use the Windows System Internals guidance to understand the Windows OS and Security
• Kali Linux (Security Framework and "Level Set" on Cyber Security)

Key IT Support areas that I've been working in while attending school at Dakota Sate.

Provide excellence in hands-on guidance, strategic identity & network architecture and security to enable customers to transform business agility by migrating on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure. Enabling customers to leverage Azure as a world-class, open platform cloud computing solution, extending IP (CIDR) Networking while supporting Windows and Linux Operating Systems, supporting numerous languages such as Python (for Cyber-Security).NET, JSON, some C#.  My current role (Cloud Solution Architect) provides me customer facing, 100% accountable for end-to-end superior customer cloud deployment.

Masters of Science (MSIA) with Dakota State University (DSU.EDU)

During the Spring Semester of 2016, I'll complete my MSIA  (Masters of Science Information Assurance) focused on Banking & Finance.

Some of the classes I've taken since 2014 are listed ( DSU Classes found here https://bit.ly/1RLslqP )

INFA 701 - Principles of Information Assurance

INFA 713 - Managing Security Risks

INFA 715 - Data Privacy

INFA 720 - Incident Response

INFA 721 - Computer Forensics

INFA 723 - Cryptography

INFA 735 - Offensive Security

INFA 742 - Ethics and Information Technology

INFA 745 - Compliance and Audit

INFS 754 - Network Security/Intrusion Detection

TECHNOLOGY (Updating as individual projects for 2016)  

Regulatory Compliance – CSA  / CCM, CJIS, CDSA, DIACAP, FedRAMP, FISMA, HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27001/27002:2013, PCI DSS, SOC,  ITIL, SOX, PCI DSS and other NIST documents

IT Governance Frameworks – ITIL, MOF, TOGAF 9.1, CobiT, ITSM, ISO/IEC 38500:2008, IT Auditing

Servers OS – Windows Server CORE, Server 2016/12R2/12, 2008R2, Linux: CentOS, Ubuntu, Kali Linux (Cyber-Security focused learning)

Other Technologies – Active Directory (Kerberos), PKI and Certificate Services, Database architect (MS SQL, Hadoop), CCNA, CCNA Security, Microsoft System Center 2012 R2, SCCM, SCOM, SCSM, SCVMM and Hyper-V, Python 2.7, Ruby on Rails, C#

Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out – MSPress, 10/25/2013 (co-author) Purchase a copy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/1RMhM6Y

Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out – MSPress, print date 6/2016 Second Edition (current book project)

Microsoft Azure: Planning, Deploying and Managing Your Data Center in the Cloud – Apress Books, Published October / 2015 (co-author)

Apress Publishing https://www.apress.com/

Purchase a copy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/1SmLWgJ

• Windows PowerShell
• Windows PowerShell ISE,
• Windows PowerShell Web Services (Management OData IIS Extension)
• Windows Remote Management (WinRM)
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

• Windows 7 SP1
  • x64: Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu
  • x86: Windows6.1-KB2819745-x86.msu
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
  • x64: Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu
• Windows Server 2012
  • x64: Windows8-RT-KB2799888-x64.msu

-Marshall

Go Rockies!

I'm excited to help support MMS 2013 because this is my 10th year to help the Management Summit event team. Since the year 2003 I've helped the hard working team that has grown this event to be "The Management Event" to attend.  I've supported the products from the event booth, I've been a Lab Proctor in the Self-Paced Labs, shared the stage with my customers as a Speaker and was honored to work as Instructor in the Instructor-Led Labs. My part is small but I hope to be a part of this event for the next 10 years.

The name of the event is "Management Summit" and the processes of managing services has been part of what Microsoft has delivered and customers have been requesting. More than virtualization, service offerings and management is what Microsoft has provided for more than 10 years with each year becoming a more mature model, longer than some virtualization solutions have been a product. Microsoft has continued to provide solutions to support IT Business Processes work flow and automation.  Please work with your Microsoft Data Center Specialist and other Microsoft team members to learn how we support the creation of "Service Offerings" and manage the entire application from the End User experience, through the Data Center and expand into the Azure cloud.

2013 is "THE YEAR" for Private and Hybrid Cloud deployment. At the MMS 2013 event there is exciting content for Azure, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012.  Learning Formats include Keynote Sessions, over 150 hours of Breakout Sessions, Instructor-Led Labs, Self-Paced Labs, Certification Exams and Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions. Ask questions, meet with the community and be prepared for an intensive technical week.

If you are attending please reach out to me so you may update me on your current projects and we can schedule a side meeting with some of the product team members.

Here are some ways to keep up with the week:

• Watch events live https://www.2013mms.com/
• Keep up on Twitter, https://twitter.com/mmsteam
• Tweet questions to the MMS team @mmsteam
• Look for #mms2013
• Keep up with me after the event https://twitter.com/Marshall_MSFT

Hope to see you at the Microsoft Management Summit.

-Marshall