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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 Storage

Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution and is highly available, secure, and scalable, plus, it supports a variety of programming languages. It is usually the first data solution users encounter when they start using Azure and it contains several services, including Disk, Blob, Table, File, and Queue.

All communication inside Azure data centers is over HTTPS, but what happens when we access data from outside? As per the shared responsibility model (explained in Chapter 1, An Introduction to Azure Security), this falls under the user's responsibility. For newly deployed storage accounts, traffic over HTTPS is enabled by default. If required, it can be disabled, but obviously, it's not recommended. Keep in mind that HTTPS is the default option only for storage accounts created after August 2021 and previously created accounts should be revisited.

Under Configuration, there is an option called Secure transfer required. To ensure...