Uros Babic

Uroš is a Lead Product Engineer for Microsoft Security DevOps at SoftwareOne’s Global Center of Excellence. He contributes to the design and innovation of MXDR for Microsoft Sentinel and strengthens Managed SOC capabilities through security automation, incident response engineering, and SOC‑as‑code development.

With 20+ years of cybersecurity experience, he focuses on Azure‑based security architecture, CI/CD automation, and large‑scale SecOps engineering using Bicep, Terraform, and GitHub Actions. As a Microsoft Security MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, he actively shares knowledge through community events, conferences, and technical content, with a strong focus on Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, and AI‑driven security automation.

July 2, 2026

Think Like an Attacker: Microsoft Security Exposure Management with Uros Babic [MVP-MCT]

Traditional cybersecurity often focuses on vulnerability counts, alerts, and compliance dashboards. Attackers don’t. They look for weak identities, excessive permissions, exposed cloud resources, forgotten devices, and misconfigurations they can combine into a successful attack. In this episode, Mirko Peters is joined by Microsoft Security MVP and MCT Uros Babic to explore cybersecurity from an attacker’s perspective and explain how Microsoft Security Exposure Management helps organizations stay ahead of modern threats.Rather than discussing security in theory, the conversation walks through a realistic attack chain—from reconnaissance and phishing to credential theft, privilege escalation, lateral movement, ransomware, and data exfiltration. Uros demonstrates how Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Security Copilot, Microsoft Entra ID, and Zero Trust principles work together to detect, prevent, and disrupt attacks before they reach critical assets.A major focus is Mic…

Guests: Mirko Peters, Uros Babic

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