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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

Understanding governance in Azure

If we try to find out what governance actually means, we find a good definition in the online business dictionary. The first part of this definition is as follows:

Establishment of policies, and continuous monitoring of their proper implementation, by the members of the governing body of an organization.

To read the entire definition, go to the following link: https://businessdictionary.info/definition/governance/.

The most important words in this definition are policies, monitoring, and implementation. If you switch implementation for deployment, you get three aspects that are essential for security. So, you could say that governance is essential for security!

What's true in real life is true within the context of IT, too. I'm talking about rules. Rules only really work if they are enforced by policies. You can tell your administrators what they are not allowed to do. But if they can do what they are not allowed to, they are...