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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)
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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned why governance is essential for security and what features Azure has to offer to help you in building a governance concept for your company. You've learned how to group and organize subscriptions and resources, how to enforce policies and all the best practices to ensure that you do so effectively and without breaking your system, and how to create consistent and repeatable environments. We know that it is not easy to find a way through this jungle of options, but when you stop, think, plan, act, and repeat, you will be on a good path to finding what fits your needs perfectly.

In the next chapter, you will not only learn how to keep track of access rights and monitor any anomalies in user behavior by learning how to manage cloud identities, but you will also learn about strategies to protect identities and how to reduce the attack surface of privileged accounts.