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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)
1
Section 1: Identity and Governance
5
Section 2: Cloud Infrastructure Security
9
Section 3: Security Management

Chapter 2: Governance and Security

Before digging deep into the technical features that help to secure and protect your cloud environments on Azure, we first need to stop, reflect, plan, and act accordingly. Governance is essential and you need guardrails in the cloud. When talking about cloud computing, customers often exhibit a kind of Let's get started mentality. That's great, but in the cloud, too, rules are necessary. And, in addition to that, you surely don't want to end up with a cloud construct that does not entirely fit your company's needs, do you?

With this chapter, we want to help you design the foundation for a secure cloud strategy and act according to your plan by leading you through the following topics:

  • Understanding governance in Azure
  • Using common sense to avoid mistakes
  • Using management locks
  • Using management groups for governance
  • Understanding Azure Policy
  • Defining Azure blueprints
  • Azure Resource Graph
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