Pouya Koushandehfar
Senior Microsoft Cyber Architect and Leader | MVP and MCT | Community Leader
📋 Biography
Pouya is a distinguished cybersecurity leader with over 16 years of experience in IT and security. As a Senior Cybersecurity Architect, he has a proven track record in consulting, designing and implementing enterprise security strategies, specialising in cloud and cloud-based security solutions. His expertise spans across identity and access management, threat protection, cloud security, cyber operation and compliance frameworks. He has played a pivotal role in shaping security roadmaps, assessing architectures, and driving the adoption of advanced security technologies while enhancing resilience for organisations across diverse industries. Pouya is also member of board and lead the below two official global communities under Microsoft Learn in APAC region: - Microsoft Zero to Hero Community - Microsoft MSFarsi
✨ High-Impact Contributions 3
Being part of the board members and the leader of the Microsoft Zero to Hero community in APAC. I have started to plan and host speakers (mainly MVPs) by myself in APAC region on the live stage (StreamYard, LinkedIn, YouTube) on different sessions and topics as per below: - Mastering Azure Networking Services to Protect Your Applications -> 4th September - A deep dive into Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel -> 9th September - Data Security Considerations for M365 Copilot -> 16th September - Automating Sentinel Triage with Microsoft Security Copilot -> 29th September
This article breaks it down clearly and practically with highlighting Microsoft Defender for Cloud as multi-cloud platform for monitoring and protecting services. The readers learn how the shared responsibility model works across different service types, where their responsibilities start and stop, the mistakes that most often lead to incidents, and how to embed this model into your operations, governance and culture.
Being part of the board members and the leader of the Microsoft Zero to Hero community in APAC. I have started to plan and host speakers (mainly MVPs) by myself in APAC region on the live stage (StreamYard, LinkedIn, YouTube) on different sessions and topics as per below: - Let There Be Cloud-Native Endpoints -> 5th August - Data Intelligence at Your Fingertips: Fabric’s AI Functions & Data Agents -> 16th August - Revolutionising DevOps with AI: From Pipelines to Deployment -> 28th August