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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

Implementing password writeback

Password writeback is a popular feature of Azure AD Connect. It allows us to write password changes in Azure AD back to on-premises AD, provided that the password does not violate the on-premises AD password policy. It is supported for all three hybrid identity authentication methods (PHS, federation, and PTA).

The main use case of this feature is to implement a self-service password reset solution. This way, a user can reset their password using the Forgot Password option from a cloud application, and the password is written to Azure AD and then written back to on-premises AD!

It is worth noting that administrators control the scenarios where this will be possible. For example, we can choose the users/groups that will be able to use this feature and we can configure the additional authentication methods that will be required for a reset request (Figure 3.51). For security reasons, you may choose not to enable this feature for highly privileged...