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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
Book Image

Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Securing and managing traffic to your workloads

Security is a shared responsibility between Microsoft, partners, and customers. Azure provides security controls and services to protect identity, network, and data resources.

In the previous section Azure Active Directory, we reviewed how you can leverage identity and management features available with Azure AD to ensure secure access to data and resources. Protecting the infrastructure and workloads for remote access on a daily basis is a critical task and Microsoft provides enterprise-grade solutions to secure the traffic to your applications, whether they are delivered through Azure or from an on-premises location.

Azure can help protect your cloud infrastructure by using network security controls to manage traffic, configuring access rules, extending connectivity to your on-premises resources, and protecting your virtual network.

One of the principal services that you can use to protect web applications is Azure Web Application...