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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 AD hybrid identity

Maintaining multiple independent silos of user credentials carries with it an increased risk of a data breach. How many times have we heard of security breaches that happened as a result of ex-employees having unrevoked access to sensitive systems after leaving their former organization? The access should have been disabled but because the victim organization had many independent access control systems, it was missed. One solution to this is to establish a centralized identity system where the provisioning and de-provisioning of user identities happen in one place. This way, if a user leaves an organization, the user account only needs to be disabled once in the central system! This is exactly what Azure AD Connect can help organizations that already have an on-premises AD DS solution to achieve as they adopt Azure AD.

Azure AD Connect

So, what is Azure AD Connect? It is a tool that can be used to synchronize objects such as user accounts...