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Mastering Azure Security - Second Edition

By : Mustafa Toroman, Tom Janetscheck
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Mastering Azure Security - Second Edition

By: Mustafa Toroman, Tom Janetscheck

Overview of this book

Security is integrated into every cloud, but this makes users put their guard down as they take cloud security for granted. Although the cloud provides higher security, keeping their resources secure is one of the biggest challenges many organizations face as threats are constantly evolving. Microsoft Azure offers a shared responsibility model that can address any challenge with the right approach. Revised to cover product updates up to early 2022, this book will help you explore a variety of services and features from Microsoft Azure that can help you overcome challenges in cloud security. You'll start by learning the most important security concepts in Azure, their implementation, and then advance to understanding how to keep resources secure. The book will guide you through the tools available for monitoring Azure security and enforcing security and governance the right way. You'll also explore tools to detect threats before they can do any real damage and those that use machine learning and AI to analyze your security logs and detect anomalies. By the end of this cloud security book, you'll have understood cybersecurity in the cloud and be able to design secure solutions in Microsoft Azure.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Identity and Governance
5
Section 2: Cloud Infrastructure Security
9
Section 3: Security Management

Introducing Microsoft Defender for Cloud

With cloud computing being the main paradigm in the modern IT world, many benefits are associated with this new way of working. IT is no longer an end in itself and employees are way more productive than they were back in the day. But there are also new challenges when it comes to protecting modern IT environments.

In Chapter 3, Managing Cloud Identities, we covered advanced identity protection and that it is no longer enough to protect network boundaries; however, some other key security challenges come with cloud computing. How can you make sure you protect your ever-changing cloud services and applications? This is one of the value propositions of cloud computing and, in fact, probably the main benefit is that you can easily change and adapt in cloud environments. Be it continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), Virtual Machine (VM) upscaling, or service decommissioning, cloud environments are dynamic. But, at the same time, one...