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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

Hybrid authentication and Single Sign-On

Organizations have come a long way from an on-premises IT infrastructure since they started to roll out cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) applications such as Microsoft Office 365. Users usually do not want to keep track of several accounts and, as they already have a corporate account based on Windows Server AD, they usually also want to use that account for cloud-based authentications. Now, this is when Azure AD Connect comes into play.

Azure AD Connect is a directory replication service that helps you to synchronize existing user accounts from an on-premises Windows Server AD with Azure AD. This is a mandatory step because you can only grant access rights and licenses to cloud-based identities in Azure AD, not to on-premises accounts.

With Azure AD Connect, you have several options to provide a single sign-on experience to your users. In the following diagram, you can see a decision tree that helps you to decide which of them...