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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
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Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Azure network security


Azure network security is based on classic network security. Just because the hardware underneath is managed and the whole networking is virtualized doesn't mean that all classic network security principles are invalid.

Network security groups

A very basic feature when it comes to network security in Azure is the network security groups. It would be too much to call them firewalls, but they fulfill basic firewall activity. They are best compared to access lists on a Layer 3 network switch. They consist of inbound and outbound network security rules. These rules control the network traffic flow and can be given several parameters at creation.

Priority

The Priority of a rule defines the order in which the rules are applied to traffic. The rules are processed in order, what means that a lower number means a higher priority.

Source

There are a few different setting for source traffic. The source traffic needs to be categorized first. An important setting is the Tag categorization...