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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
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Section 2: Cloud Infrastructure Security
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Section 3: Security Management

Private endpoints

Private endpoints enable further integration between Azure PaaS services and VNet. Whereas service endpoints allow secure communication between PaaS and IaaS, private endpoints fully integrate PaaS to VNet. Service endpoints allow communication over the Microsoft backbone network, but PaaS services are still available over the internet. Private endpoint integrates service to VNet, after which a service is assigned a private IP address and all communications are done over a private network (VNet).

Using private endpoints, PaaS workloads can be accessed exclusively over a private network and never exposed to access over the internet. This provides an additional network security layer and mitigates the risk of publicly exposing services (even through a firewall). Services configured to use private endpoints can be accessed from the same VNet, a peered VNet, and on-premises using S2S or ExpressRoute, if other security rules (such as NSGs for example) so allow. Not...