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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

Azure AD editions

The features of Azure AD that you can use depends on the edition of Azure AD that you have, and your licensing based on pricing. For example, if you want to implement advanced identity security capabilities of Azure AD such as Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management, you need to have the right Azure AD edition that enables these capabilities. We will cover both Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management in Chapter 4, Azure AD Identity Security.

Before July 2019, we had five editions of Azure AD (Free, Basic, Office 365 Apps, Premium P1, and Premium P2) but after July 2019, we only have four editions (Free, Office 365 Apps, Premium P1, and Premium P2). The reason for bringing this up is to give you a clearer context in case you come across an older blog or document that still references the Basic edition of Azure AD. Just be aware that the "Basic" edition has now gone away!

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