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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

Getting started with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel is Microsoft's SIEM solution in the cloud. As cloud computing continues to revolutionize how we do IT, SIEM must evolve to address the new challenges that the changes to IT create. Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable cloud solution that offers intelligent security and threat analytics. On top of that, Microsoft Sentinel provides threat visibility and alerting, along with proactive threat hunting and responses.

So, if we look carefully, all the checkboxes for SIEM are ticked.

The pricing model for Microsoft Sentinel comes with two options:

  • Pay-As-You-Go: In Pay-As-You-Go, billing is done per GB of data ingested to Microsoft Sentinel.

    Important Note

    At the time of writing, the price in the Pay-As-You-Go model was $2.60 per ingested GB.

  • Capacity reservation: Capacity reservation offers different tiers with varying amounts of data reserved. Reservation creates a commitment and billing is done per tier, even if...