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Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond

Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond

By : David Okeyode
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Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond

Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond

4.7 (17)
By: David Okeyode

Overview of this book

Exam preparation for the AZ-500 means you’ll need to master all aspects of the Azure cloud platform and know how to implement them. With the help of this book, you'll gain both the knowledge and the practical skills to significantly reduce the attack surface of your Azure workloads and protect your organization from constantly evolving threats to public cloud environments like Azure. While exam preparation is one of its focuses, this book isn't just a comprehensive security guide for those looking to take the Azure Security Engineer certification exam, but also a valuable resource for those interested in securing their Azure infrastructure and keeping up with the latest updates. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide builds a solid foundation of Azure security. You’ll not only learn about security technologies in Azure but also be able to configure and manage them. Moreover, you’ll develop a clear understanding of how to identify different attack vectors and mitigate risks. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with implementing multi-layered security to protect identities, networks, hosts, containers, databases, and storage in Azure – and more than ready to tackle the AZ-500.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: Implement Identity and Access Security for Azure
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Section 2: Implement Azure Platform Protection
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Section 3: Secure Storage, Applications, and Data

Implementing vulnerability assessment for VMs

When we talk about VM vulnerability scanning, the Azure Defender plan of Security Center has functionality that we can use for this. This functionality is called Azure Defender for Servers. It uses a third-party solution known as Qualys in the background, but the process and integration are abstracted from us.

Even though Qualys is used, we do not need to obtain a Qualys license or have a relationship with Qualys. Everything is handled seamlessly inside Security Center:

Figure 8.27 – Azure Defender for VMs

Figure 8.27 – Azure Defender for VMs

There are four stages to using this functionality:

  1. Deploy the Qualys vulnerability scanner extension. The extension can be deployed to Azure VMs from Azure Security Center.
  2. The extension gathers information and artifacts concerning the VM and sends them to the Qualys cloud service. Network communication between the VM and the Qualys cloud service is needed for this.
  3. The Qualys...
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