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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

Enabling security for remote workers

COVID-19 has not only impacted businesses of different sizes and verticals but has also fueled cybercrime. The fear related to this pandemic has led cybercriminals with different skillsets and motivations to capitalize by imitating trusted sources and national health organizations using different tactics and techniques.

Enabling remote work has been a challenge, especially for those organizations that were used to providing access to on-premises applications only within their corporate network. Security is a shared responsibility between Microsoft and it's customers; in today's world, a security breach into an organization could mean millions of dollars' worth of damage.

In light of the pandemic, organizations of all sizes have had to adopt new systems and controls to secure access to both on-premises and cloud resources.

Security operations excellence

As many employees are likely to continue working remotely, there...