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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

Understanding Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is a secure, cloud-based storage solution for keys, secrets, and certificates. Tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets can be securely stored and access to them can be granularly controlled using Azure Key Vault. The service can also be used as a key management solution. Azure Key Vault makes it easy to create and control the encryption keys that are used to encrypt your data. Another usage scenario is Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificate enrollment and management. You can use Azure Key Vault to address certificate life cycle management for both Azure and internally connected resources. Secrets and keys that are stored in Azure Key Vault can be protected either by software or hardware security modules (HSMs) that are FIPS 140-2 Level 2 validated.

As you have already learned, you can use Azure Key Vault to manage keys, secrets, and certificates. The following list explains what each...