023 - The basics of Azure CDN, and how you can protect it

Join us in this episode for a discussion on the basics of Azure CDN, or Azure Content Delivery Network. We discuss the features, when and where to use it, and what the difference is to other caching services such as Redis. In addition, we also dive into securing Azure CDN properly.

Show Notes

• Azure CDN documentation (Microsoft)
• Azure Cache for Redis (Microsoft)
• Creating a WAF policy for Azure CDN (Microsoft)
• Sankohiipiminen (Water bucket sneaking - a competition!)
• Web Application Firewall overview (Microsoft)

Creators and Guests

Host

Jussi Roine

Bridging the gap between business and security 🛡 Senior Security Architect at Not Bad Security | Microsoft MVP/MCM

Host

Tobias Zimmergren

CTO, co-founder at pons.io | Co-host ctrlaltazure.com | Ex-Microsoft, ex-MVP.

What is Ctrl+Alt+Azure?

Weekly conversations for cloud architects, developers, CIOs, and CISOs navigating Microsoft Azure, cloud adoption strategy, security governance, identity, and agentic AI. Hosted by industry experts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine.