📢 Guardians of the Cloud — Episode 3:

Guardians of the Cloud is our community security series exploring the Microsoft security stack and how to defend modern cloud environments — one mission at a time. Content is also aligned with the Qatar Cybersecurity Framework (QCF).

📌 Episode 3
AI-Powered Cloud Defense and Data Protection

🗓 Wednesday, May 20, 2026
🕡 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Microsoft Qatar, 27th Floor, Burj Fardan Tower, Lusail
📺 Live streamed on: youtube.com/@AzureQatarCommunity

👨‍💻 Speakers:

Peter Petrovic – Cybersecurity Cloud & AI Solution Architect @ Microsoft
Peter is back for the finale, bringing his deep experience designing and running Security Operations Centers across IT, OT, and cloud environments.

Vikram Sahay – Solution Architect @ Microsoft
Vikram brings over 20 years of experience at Microsoft, with a current focus on data security — a perfect lens for the data protection side of this conversation.

What we’ll cover:

✔ AI in the SOC — How Security Copilot and AI are reshaping the way defenders work day-to-day.

✔ Securing AI workloads — Protecting Copilot, agents, and AI applications from new types of threats like prompt injection and data leakage.

✔ Data Loss Prevention with Microsoft Purview — Discovering, classifying, and protecting sensitive data across Microsoft 365 and the cloud.

✔ Real-world scenarios — End-to-end attack walkthroughs showing how the full Microsoft security stack defends together.

The session will include live demonstrations and an open Q&A.

🎯 Who should attend

•   Security analysts, SOC engineers, and CISOs
•   Data and compliance leads working on DLP and information protection
•   Cloud and AI engineers building (or securing) Copilot and AI workloads
•   Anyone curious about how AI and data protection fit into a modern defense strategy

⚠️ In-person seats are very limited — priority for cyber security professionals and people working in the field. Everyone else, join us live on YouTube 📺

👉 Register: events.azureqatar.org/securityai