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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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8. Conclusion
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Index

6. Security fundamentals to help protect against cybercrime

This chapter will help you understand the Azure security fundamentals and guide you through the security services available. We will review how you can use Microsoft services to adopt a Zero Trust strategy in your organization, along with solutions that you can utilize to protect your workloads and assess and improve your security posture. In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Enabling security for remote workers
  • Gaining visibility into your entire infrastructure using Azure Security Center
  • Achieving advanced threat protection for your hybrid and multicloud environments with Azure Defender
  • Securing your network
  • Modernizing security operations with Azure Sentinel
  • A unified SecOps experience

Before we drill down into the services you can use to protect your environments, it is important to understand how you can effectively implement security practices to protect your environments...