Book Image

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)
8
8. Conclusion
9
Index

Gain visibility into your entire infrastructure with Azure Security Center

Unified visibility across your environment is critical to monitoring your security posture, detecting threats, and quickly responding to them. Security Center can provide the mechanisms to monitor your environments and proactively respond to security threats.

If you navigate to the Azure portal and search for Security Center, you will be able to see the service on your subscription as shown in Figure 6.1:

Azure Security Center overview

Figure 6.1: Azure Security Center overview

On the Security Center page, you can see an overview of the security posture of the resources in your subscription along with recommendations for hardening the security of those resources:

  1. Secure score: The core of Azure Security Center's cloud security posture management capabilities is the Secure Score. This is a measure of the current status of security recommendations for all the resources. It's calculated using...