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Azure for Decision Makers

By : Jack Lee, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
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Book Image

Azure for Decision Makers

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By: Jack Lee, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Azure for Decision Makers provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates in cloud security, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and cloud migration in Azure. This book is a must-have introduction to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The first set of chapters will get you up to speed with Microsoft Azure's evolution before showing you how to integrate it into your existing IT infrastructure. Next, you’ll gain practical insights into application migration and modernization, focusing mainly on migration planning, implementation, and best practices. Throughout the book, you’ll get the information you need to spearhead a smooth migration and modernization process, detailing Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, and key application architectures. The concluding chapters will help you to identify and incorporate best practices for cost optimization and management, Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to lead end-to-end Azure operations for your organization and effectively cost-optimize your processes ─ from the planning and cloud migration stage through to troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Maximizing Azure Security Benefits for Your Organization

In today's business world, data has become one of the most valuable assets for any organization. Protecting that data is a top priority. Identity and access management (IAM) solutions are essential for ensuring the security and privacy of an organization's data. IAM solutions provide a framework for managing access to resources, applications, and data while ensuring that the identities of those accessing resources are secure and properly managed.

This chapter will discuss the Azure security benefits for organizations, including IAM, best practices for securing workloads on Azure, and the ability to deploy security solutions from the cloud to the edge using hybrid solutions.

To further enhance security, we will discuss how Microsoft Sentinel provides intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across an enterprise by searching, analyzing, and visualizing data. Furthermore, we will review how organizations...