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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

Introducing security defaults

Security defaults are a rather new capability that will enforce basic identity security mechanisms across an Azure AD. These capabilities will ensure that user and administrator accounts are better protected from common identity-related attacks, such as brute force, or password spray.

Security defaults are enabled by default on new Azure AD enrollments but might need to be manually enabled on existing ones. To manage security defaults, navigate to Azure Active Directory and click the Properties option in the left navigation pane. Then, click the Manage Security defaults link and switch the Enable Security defaults setting to Yes, as shown in Figure 3.11:

Figure 3.11 – Enable Security defaults

Security defaults will require all users and administrators to use MFA and block legacy authentication protocols. Once security defaults have been enabled, users will be asked to proceed through the MFA procedure you already know...