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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how the Azure DDoS protection service can be implemented to mitigate DDoS threats against applications and resources deployed in our virtual networks.

You also learned how Azure Firewall can be used to inspect incoming and outgoing virtual network connections to protect against malicious traffic before it impacts our application workloads. We also covered how Azure Firewall Manager can reduce the complexity of deploying policies to multiple firewalls from a centralized management service.

And finally, we covered how WAF (in Application Gateway or Azure Front Door) can be implemented to secure web applications against common exploits, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

The information in this chapter has equipped you with the skills required to secure the perimeter of your Azure virtual networks from attacks and unauthorized access. In the next chapter, we will take this further by looking at network security for our virtual...