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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
12
Section 3: Secure Storage, Applications, and Data

Implementing encryption at rest

Anytime the topic of storage security comes up, a common concern for organizations is ensuring that data is encrypted at rest and in transit. In many cases, this is a mandatory measure required for compliance with industry and government regulations such as PCI, HIPAA, and FedRAMP.

The great thing about Azure Storage is that encryption at rest is automatic and enabled by default for all services, including Blob and Files. This encryption is powered by a feature called Storage Service Encryption (SSE). This feature is also referred to as service-level encryption. SSE is enabled for all new and existing storage accounts at no additional cost and cannot be disabled.

SSE ensures that data written to any Azure Storage service is encrypted with a 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher, which is one of the strongest block ciphers available. The process transparently decrypts data that is read from Azure Storage before returning it to a client...