Celebrating Another Year as a Microsoft MVP!

I’m absolutely thrilled to share that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for another year! This exciting news marks a significant milestone, extending a remarkable journey that first began all the way back in 2008. It’s truly incredible to think that I’ve been part of this distinguished community for over a decade and a half.

This continued recognition highlights my ongoing contributions to the community, particularly in the critical and constantly evolving technical areas of Cloud Security, encompassing Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Azure network security products, as well as GitHub Advanced Security and the innovative Microsoft Security Copilot. These are fields I’m deeply passionate about, and I love diving into their complexities.

This renewal is a testament to my passion for sharing knowledge and my commitment to helping others effectively navigate the complex world of cybersecurity. My goal is always to provide insights and contributions that empower individuals and organizations to strengthen their security posture.

A heartfelt thank you goes out to Microsoft for this continued honor. I’m deeply passionate about fostering a collaborative environment where learning and growth are paramount. I’m genuinely looking forward to another year of engaging with this amazing community, sharing expertise, expanding my own knowledge, and contributing to our collective understanding of security best practices.

Mail From Microsoft

Erdal Ozkaya,

We’re pleased to welcome you to another year for the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) program in recognition of your outstanding contributions to the community in the following Technical Area/s:

• Microsoft Security Copilot
• Cloud Security (Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure network security products, GitHub Advanced Security)

Thank you for your contributions to the community!

What Does It Mean to Be a Microsoft MVP?

For those unfamiliar, the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award is given to exceptional technical community leaders worldwide who actively share their deep technical expertise with others. These individuals demonstrate a commitment to helping others learn and succeed by sharing their passion, real-world knowledge, and technical skills across various Microsoft technologies and communities. MVPs are recognized for their contributions to technical communities – online and offline – through activities like speaking at conferences, answering questions in forums, writing articles, and much more. It’s a recognition of the significant impact and dedication these individuals bring to the broader tech community.

What does it take to be an MVP?

There are 3 very simple steps: Be an expert, do lots of what you love, and let us know! Really, there isn’t a long checklist of things you need to do to become an MVP. The best MVPs really excel in step #2: they LOVE what they do. And we can tell! Whether you’re a recognized speaker, a technical content creator, technical community leader, recognized advocate on social media, a consistent GitHub contributor or have a totally different and cool way to share your passion for our products and services, we’d love to know more!

How can I become an MVP?

We want to award the best and brightest technical community leaders! To place yourself into consideration for the MVP Award, a nomination referral must be first submitted on your behalf by either a Microsoft Full Time Employee (FTE) or Microsoft MVP. Following this referral submission, a link to complete the award nomination will be sent to you. Once you have completed the nomination form, we will review your nomination. As you can imagine, sometimes we receive a lot of applications, this process can take up to 90 days. If you have any questions, please contact the MVP global support channel.

MVP Award Technology Structure

For over 20 years, the Microsoft MVPs have played a vital role in the support, advancement and adoption of our technologies. Today there are more than 4,000 MVPs globally, and many of them now design, build and innovate across multiple platforms, devices and technologies-including open source, creating holistic solutions and helping others to do the same.

In this mobile-first, cloud-first world, the ability to recognize the broad array of community contributions MVPs make across cutting edge technologies and constant innovation is essential. The MVP Award structure is designed to align with Microsoft’s top priorities, while at the same time, allowing us to be agile with the pace of innovation, changes in the market and wide range of contributions you make in the communities today.

We award MVPs in Award Categories which encompass a great number of Developer and IT Pro focused technology areas-including open source. Our Award Categories are specifically designed at a high level for durability and enablement of broad contribution recognition of MVPs in these technology areas. They are also directly aligned to Contribution Areas, an array of related technologies under each Award Category. The Contribution Areas are designed to be dynamic and may change as industry, products and services evolve. They also provide greater insight toward MVP contributions, enabling rich conversations and deeper engagements with our product teams.

A key element of the MVP Award structure is recognition. If you contribute to areas that span multiple technologies, you have the opportunity to potentially be recognized in multiple MVP Award Categories. We are very excited about this for our community!

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