Sami Laiho

About Me

Sami Laiho is one of the world’s leading professionals in the Windows OS and Security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1995.

Sami has been auditing and implementing security solutions, specializing in Principle of Least Privilege, Application Control and Privileged Access Workstations, since 2002. Sami has deployed solutions for companies with between 1-550000 endpoints.

Sami currently works as a Chief Research Officer at Adminize.com.

Since 2019 Sami has been chosen by TiVi-magazine as one of the top 100 influencers in IT in Finland. He is in the TOP10 most followed people in his field in Finland.

At Ignite 2018, Sami’s “Behind the Scenes: How to build a conference winning session” and “Sami Laiho: 45 Life Hacks of Windows OS in 45 minutes” sessions were ranked as #1 and #2 out of 1708 sessions!! This was the first time in the history of the conference that anyone has been able to do this.

Before that, at Ignite 2017, the world’s biggest Microsoft event, Sami was evaluated as the Best External Speaker! Also, Sami’s sessions were evaluated as the Best session in TechEd North America, Europe and Australia in 2014, and Nordic Infrastructure Conference in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Facts

Chief Research Officer / CEO – Adminize Oy
Born in late 1979
IT Admin since 1995
MCT since 2001
MVP in Windows OS since 2011 (Profile)
- Windows Security MVP since 2024
Top 100 most influencal people in IT in Finland, since 2019 (TiVi)
PluralSight Author (My courses)
Languages: Finnish (native), English (fluent), Swedish (basic), Spanish (basic)
Pictures for Press etc: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AspOCmNF4_bZoKs2BT7YGeE0sdFIWw

T-SHIRTS AND OTHER SWAG:

adminize: products on Zazzle

Videos (Top picks):

Sysinternals 25^th Birthday:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVYZrUJdXqU
How to Build Better and More Secure Software for Windows:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xk9lQf27wM
Ignite 2018 winning session with the Hedgehog:
- https://youtu.be/-LLymy-6Nds
Zero Admins, Zero Problems:
- https://1drv.ms/u/s!AspOCmNF4_bZrsNVDg8Hmi4IfFyqvA?e=fq480t

Specializes In

Troubleshooting
Security
Active Directory
Hacking
Penetration testing
Social Engineering

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Trophies / My Professional Awards

Best Session and Speaker, AppManagEvent 2024, Utrecht
Best Session at IglooConf 2024, Finland
Best Speaker at Nordic Virtual Summit 2021, Online
Best Session at Advanced Threat Summit 2020, Poland
Best Session (and #2) out of 1708 sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2018, Orlando
Best External Speaker & Best Session by an External Speaker at Microsoft Ignite 2017, Orlando
Best Sessions (#1 and #2) at AppManagEvent 2018, Utrecht
Best Session at the Sharepoint HPR 2017, Helsinki
Best Sessions (#1 and #2) at TechTalks 2017, Helsinki
Best Session at AppManagEvent 2017, Utrecht
Best Speaker at TechDays Sweden 2016, 2018, Stockholm
Best session at TechTalks 2016, Helsinki
Best Speaker at NIC Conference 2016, 2017,2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024, Oslo (More info)
Best session at TechTalks 2015, Helsinki
Ignite 2015 Chicago – #2 in the evals (over 1000 speakers)
TechEd Europe 2014 – Best session (More info)
TechEd North America 2014 – Best session, Best Speaker (More info)
TechEd Australia 2013 ï¿½ Best session, Best speaker
TechEd Europe 2013 ï¿½ Best Session by an external speaker
Best session at Techdays Finland 2013
Best session by Microsoft STEP member in 2012
Best session at Techdays Finland 2012
Best session at Techdays Finland 2011