This chapter is about security, the protection of your workload at operating system level. Of course, Azure already provides you with services to protect your virtual machine in many ways and at many levels. The following are a few of the services:
- Azure Resource Manager, which provides security, auditing, and tagging features
- The web application firewall, which protects against many attacks, such as SQL injection
- The stateful packet filtering feature of Network Security Groups
- The Azure Firewall service, which provides a stateful firewall tightly integrated with the monitoring functions of Azure
And you can subscribe to the Azure Security Center service for unified security management with nice features such as continuous security assessment.
With all these possibilities, do we still need protection at the OS level? In my opinion, multi...