Corey Knapp is an independent cloud, identity, and security advisor with deep experience designing and securing large-scale Azure and Microsoft 365 environments. His work spans identity, networking, data protection, and governance in complex, real-world organizations where security, resilience, and operational clarity are critical.
Much of Corey’s focus centers on how modern adversaries weaponize compromised identities to bypass traditional defenses, turning valid credentials into a direct path to data loss and operational paralysis. He helps organizations close the gap between identity and data protection, recognizing that clean recovery is impossible without restoring trust in the identity system first.
More recently, Corey’s work has expanded into helping organizations evaluate AI adoption realistically, emphasizing readiness over experimentation. Known to many in the cloud community as The Big Bald Azure Guy through his work as a YouTuber and Microsoft Certified Trainer, Corey brings a practical, experience-driven perspective shaped by years of teaching, advising, and operating in real-world cloud environments rather than theory or hype.
