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Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond

By : David Okeyode
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Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond

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)
1
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

Chapter 9: Implementing Container Security

Containers have been around for a long time. However, recently, they have become commonplace within an enterprise. The Azure platform continues to extend services that we can use to host containerized applications (for example, Container Registry, Kubernetes Service, Container Instances, App Service, "Functions", and Batch). In this chapter, we will be going over containerization in Azure, the container security threat landscape for Azure, and how to implement security across three key services – Azure Container Registry (ACR), Azure Container Instances (ACI), and Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). We will cover the following main topics with accompanying hands-on exercises:

  • An overview of containerization in Azure
  • Introducing ACR
  • ACR security best practices
  • Introducing AKS
  • AKS security best practices

As you can see, each topic has been structured to align with a security best practice for securing...