Sarah Young

Sarah Young is a Senior Cloud Security Advocate at Microsoft. She has worked in the Asian, North American and European markets and brings a wealth of experience in technology working across a range of industry sectors. With a background in network and infrastructure engineering, Sarah brings deep technical knowledge to her work. She also has a penchant for cloud native technologies and is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador.

Her technical focus at Microsoft is cloud security products and Sarah works with security communities across the globe to uplift their security posture. Sarah is a co-host of the Azure Security Podcast and has authored Microsoft Press exam guides.

Sarah is an experienced public speaker and has presented on a range of IT security and technology topics at industry events both nationally and internationally (BSides Las Vegas, The Diana Initiative, Kiwicon, PyCon AU, Container Camp AU/London, BSides Ottawa, BSides Perth, DevSecCon Boston, CHCon, KubeCon, BSides SF). In 2019, Sarah won the Security Champion award at the Australian Women in Security Awards. She is an active supporter of both local and international security and cloud native communities.