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Mastering Azure Security - Second Edition

By : Mustafa Toroman, Tom Janetscheck
Book Image

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)
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Section 1: Identity and Governance
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Section 2: Cloud Infrastructure Security
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Section 3: Security Management

Cloud workload protection and multi-cloud capabilities

The second main pillar of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is Cloud Workload Protection, which is all about enhanced security features and threat intelligence. These enhanced capabilities are activated once you enable one or several of the Defender for Cloud enhanced security plans, as highlighted earlier in this chapter. As Microsoft is constantly working on improving existing and adding future plans to Defender for Cloud, we can only cover some of them in this chapter to give you an idea of what additional capabilities they provide. In general, when enabling Defender for Cloud plans, this will enable threat detection capabilities for the workload that is being protected by a plan, but also other advanced cloud defense capabilities, such as vulnerability assessments.

Microsoft Defender for Servers

One of the most popular Defender for Cloud plans is Microsoft Defender for Servers. Defender for Servers leverages the machine&apos...