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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 Azure cloud governance

The traditional approach to enforcing organizational standards is to prevent teams from creating their own services, and instead to have the IT team define and deploy services on their behalf. This approach is often the solution in on-premises situations, but it reduces the agility of teams and slows down their ability to innovate.

A good cloud governance model should seek to enforce the security and compliance standards of the organization while allowing different teams to create and own their resources in the cloud. The Azure cloud provides several options that we can use to implement this model but for our objectives, we will cover management groups, Azure Policy, Azure RBAC, and Azure Blueprints. Let's start by understanding what management groups are and how we can make use of them to implement governance in Azure.

Understanding management groups

To keep things simple, a management group is a logical construct that allows us to...