Microsoft Azure Security Infrastructure

By: Yuri Diogenes, Thomas Shinder, Debra Littlejohn Shinder

ISBN-13: 9781509303571
ISBN-10: 150930357X
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Published date: 2016-09-09
Implement maximum control, security, and compliance processes in Azure cloud environmentsIn”Microsoft Azure Security Infrastructure,” three leading experts show how toplan, deploy, and operate Microsoft Azure with outstanding levels of control, security, and compliance. You ll learn how to prepare infrastructure withMicrosoft s integrated tools, prebuilt templates, and managed services anduse these to help safely build and manage any enterprise, mobile, web, orInternet of Things (IoT) system. The authors guide you through enforcing, managing, and verifying robust security at physical, network, host, application, and data layers. You ll learn best practices for security-aware deployment, operational management, threat mitigation, and continuous improvement so you can help protect all your data, make services resilient to attack, and stayin control no matter how your cloud systems evolve. Three Microsoft Azure experts show you how to: Understand cloud security boundaries and responsibilities Plan for compliance, risk management, identity/access management, operational security, and endpoint and data protection Explore Azure s defense-in-depth security architecture Use Azure network security patterns and best practices Help safeguard data via encryption, storage redundancy, rightsmanagement, database security, and storage security Help protect virtual machines with Microsoft Antimalware forAzure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines Use the Microsoft Azure Key Vault service to help secure cryptographickeys and other confidential information Monitor and help protect Azure and on-premises resources withAzure Security Center and Operations Management Suite Effectively model threats and plan protection for IoT systems Use Azure security tools for operations, incident response, andforensic investigation”