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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

Summary

The most important lesson in this chapter is to understand the shared responsibility model in Azure. Microsoft takes care of some parts of security, especially in terms of physical security, but we need to take care of the rest.

With Azure networking, integrity, availability, and monitoring, we don't have any influence and can't change anything (at least in the sections we discussed here). However, they are important to understand as we can apply a lot of things in the parts of security that we can manage. They will also provide more context and help us to better understand the complete security setup in Azure.

In the next chapter, we will move on to identity, which is one of the most important pillars of security. In Azure, identity is even more important, as most services are managed and accessible over the internet. Therefore, we need to take additional steps to make identity and access secure and bulletproof.