Hello, I'm Chris Goosen. Welcome to the Everyday
Defender podcast. As always, I'm joined by my
friend from the Netherlands, Kos. Hey, Chris.
How are you doing? Very, very well. It's been,
I want to say, a couple of months since we last
saw each other, actually. And it's amazing how
time flies when, you know, things are busy, right?
I know you've been very, very busy with some
things, and we'll talk about that a little bit.
Since we last saw each other, I've been... back
to san francisco for ignite we spent a great
week uh with the microsoft folks in san francisco
that was that was awesome meeting customers and
and all that cool stuff and i guess for our audience
um you know this is not your traditional episode
of of uh the everyday defender podcast we wanted
to put together this uh quick promo just to let
you know the things that we were working on while
everyone's enjoying their uh sort of holiday
season and uh getting ready for the new year
uh coast and i have been thinking about uh season
two And so we're excited to just drop just a
quick promo about what might be coming up. Yeah,
I think we were already very happy with how first
season went, Chris, but I think we had a couple
of things we wanted to change. So that's why
we took a little time off and now preparing to
launch season two in the next year. One of the
things that changed was the name, right, Chris?
People were having a hard time finding us. They
heard about the Everyday Defender podcast and
then they went to Spotify, whatever, typed it
in and didn't find anything. Absolutely. That's
been some feedback that we've heard and we've
received. And so we are going to be renaming.
You know, it's still Chris. It's still Kos. It's
still Everyday Defender. uh without the lead
speak So we're going to just be renaming it to
everyday defender. So it'd be a lot easier for
folks to find us, you know, instead of trying
to guess how to spell. I will double down on
the lead speak on the title episode title. So
Chris to compensate for that. Fair enough. I
think it's a little bit of give and take, right?
Some other things that we've been, we've been
thinking about here, you know, we've, as we've
built the podcast and as, as things have sort
of developed and grown, we've, been putting a
lot more effort into our show notes, right? And
I think everyone who's read the show notes understands.
And a lot of this effort is oftentimes we have
code in there. We have all sorts of things and
we've kind of feel like it's not as legible as
it could be, right? When we first built our website,
the website was just about the podcast. It wasn't
necessarily to be a, you know, a freestanding.
um sort of body of work and and i think we've
realized that it doesn't translate that well
given how much effort we put into the show notes
so we're going to be working on some something
new for the website to just make it a little
bit more legible you know a lot less hacker less
console um but uh but make it easier for folks
to read and actually really extract the the value
there that gets that gets put into that so excited
about that keep an eye out for that yeah and
obviously we're we're keep covering uh the latest
and greatest regarding microsoft security So
a lot of new products and features obviously
coming around every time and obviously one of
our main goals is to provide everybody some practical
tips they can apply themselves. That will stay
the same. Other new stuff will be also regarding
AI, of course. It's impossible to deny. I think
Microsoft, without going into more details right
now, but Microsoft released a couple of changes
lately. I think we should cover them more in
depth in one of the episodes. But I also think
it is fun to cover some third -party solutions.
So at the company I work for, we use Claude and
N8N, or Nathan for people in the know, a lot
in our security operations. So I thought maybe
we should cover an episode to let people know
how to run a SOC based on the Microsoft Security
products and how we apply AI there as well. I
think that's awesome. Personally, I'm quite passionate
about that sort of SecOps space as well. So you
can look forward to a lot of automation and PowerShell
and all that kind of goodness from me as well.
Obviously, I spent a lot of time with customers
when I was at Ignite. I spent a lot of time at
the Entra booth. And so that really helped me
as well sort of understand a lot of some of the
questions that customers have today currently
about sort of Entra and making the most of Entra.
So I think you could expect a lot of Entra things
in the new season as well. So really, really
looking forward to it. Hope you like the new
branding as well. Again, you know, COSAS has
been hard at work. um so with some new branding
and just wanting to keep things a little bit
fresh right we don't want to be stale we don't
want to have the same old thing every every month
um it's really important for us to kind of keep
the um everything fresh and and and exciting
so i really really look forward to season two
um uh coming in in uh 2026 be dropping before
you know it Yeah, and quickly, I want to round
off with the community projects, Chris. They
will return as well, season two. While everybody
was eating Christmas turkey, the community members
were building new stuff I saw on LinkedIn. So
definitely, we'll share those projects with you.
And sorry for this shameless plug, but everybody
who does not have registered for a live stream
ticket for Yellow Hat, please go to yellowhat
.live. I think it will be a great Microsoft security
focused live stream again for the second time
this year in January 13th. Fantastic. A great
value that event is as well. So check it out,
folks. If you do run a community project or you
do spend a lot of time building things for the
community, please reach out to us on the socials.
We'd love to feature your project and talk about
the things you're doing as well. That's specifically
why we have that. um community project segment
uh in in the show uh other than that coast great
to see you as always man i'm so excited about
uh getting started on on on season two also excited
about seeing you in march at mvp summit so we've
got a great year coming and uh really really
looking forward to it yeah keep an eye out on
your podcast app for for updates on our podcast
all right folks take care see you soon thanks
everybody bye