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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

Summary

Enabling remote work makes security operations more challenging as there's a significant increase in the number of endpoints and environments that need to be monitored and protected. Through the adoption of a Zero Trust strategy, we can reduce the risk of potential attacks and compromises.

In this chapter, we have reviewed some of the core services that Microsoft provides to help you adopt a Zero Trust strategy in your organization and respond to threats quickly and intelligently.

We reviewed how you can empower your security operation teams using Azure Sentinel, a cloud-native SIEM, to help security operations teams stay ahead of their adversaries. We also saw how you can use Azure Security Center to monitor almost all the resources that are part of your environment and protect them without any additional deployment, and use Azure Defender to protect your workloads whether they are in the cloud or on-premises.

In the next chapter, we will see how you can optimize...