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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

Exploring passwords and passphrases

When talking about identity security, there is one principle you always have to keep in mind: assume breach. The question is not whether your accounts are attacked but whether you know about it and whether you can prevent attackers from being successful. We can already see that there are many successful attacks against cloud identities every day. There is no single solution for protecting your identities, but you need to leverage a broader toolset to be resilient against identity attacks.

Important Note

The question is not whether your cloud identities are under attack, but whether you can ensure that attackers are not successful.

If we start with passwords, you could say that no one likes them. Well, attackers do, because passwords often give them leverage for an upcoming identity-focused attack attempt. Given the fact that people tend to create their passwords based on their life experiences, an attacker generally needs to be good at gathering...