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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

Chapter 3: Managing Cloud Identities

Back in the days when IT security was synonymous with blocking network traffic, life was easy. You could be sure that your physical walls constituted your perimeter, so you simply needed to protect your borders. However, today, your network endpoints are no longer enough to secure your perimeter. Today, we see an increasing number of phishing and credential theft attacks against corporate environments. We're in an age where corporate data is moving out of its secure enterprise network environment. It's the age of cloud services such as Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, and so traditional security strategies aren't enough to safeguard data as the data is outside secure walls. We need a new approach to add on top of the traditional approach. This new approach is identity is the new perimeter. This makes identity something we need to protect more than ever before. Of course, this does not mean that we have to do away with the old method...