About the Authors

Jayant Sharma (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Expert, MCT, MCSA, MCP, ITIL, VCA) is a salt and pepper combination of a technical professional with deep experience in Azure architecting and security hardening. He began his career as a server specialist, cut his technical teeth at TCS, HPE and went on to become an Azure Cloud Architect (TOGAF Aware) at IBM, India.

He worked on Azure architecting, security hardening for Data, Storage, Virtual Machines, Application, and user identity and access management (IAM). He has sound experience in security compliance implementation and audits FISMA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001:2013, HIPPA, GDPR(EU), MeitY(India), and many others. He has more than 10 years of experience with global clients.