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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

Configuring storage account authorization

To access data in the Blob or Files service, a client needs to be authenticated and authorized. Authentication verifies the identity of a client that is making the connection request while authorization grants or denies access to the identified client. Both the Azure Blob and Azure Files services support different authentication and authorization options, as shown in Figure 10.23. In general, the authorization options that are supported can be classified into two categories:

  • Key-based authorization options such as a storage account key and shared access signature
  • Identity-based authorization options such as Azure AD and on-premises AD

The best practice is to always implement identity-based authorization where possible as it provides better security and auditability:

Figure 10.23 – Azure Storage authentication options

Figure 10.23 – Azure Storage authentication options

Important note

The only exception to the authentication and authorization...