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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
7
Section 2: Implement Azure Platform Protection
12
Section 3: Secure Storage, Applications, and Data

Hands-on exercise – providing resources for the chapter exercises

To follow along with the exercises in this chapter, we will provide some Azure resources to work with. We have prepared an ARM template in the GitHub repository of this book for this purpose. The template will deploy an Azure virtual network with a public subnet, as shown in Figure 9.2. The subnet will have an Ubuntu Linux VM that can be accessed over SSH. Here are the tasks that we will complete in this exercise:

  • Task 1: Initialize the template deployment in GitHub.
  • Task 2: Complete the parameters and deploy the template to Azure:
Figure 9.2 – Resources created for the exercise scenarios

Figure 9.2 – Resources created for the exercise scenarios

Let's begin deploying our template deployment:

  1. Open a web browser and browse to http://bit.ly/az500-c9-template. This link will open the GitHub repository that has an ARM template to deploy the resources we need.
  2. In the GitHub repository that opens, click on...