Chapter 9. Implementing Azure Security

In previous chapters, we learned how to set up and manage Azure infrastructure services. These included Resource groups, Azure Active Directory, virtual networks, and storage accounts.

Security is a very major and important topic and all these services should be created with security in mind. As cloud security is a little different from the classic security we know from our on premise infrastructures, this chapter will provide a brief overview of security.

You should consider scalability, durability, and high availability depending on the scenario and target you try to achieve.

Within this chapter you will learn about most of the basic Azure security offerings. You will learn how and when to implement and integrate security on storage and compute level. We will also take a look at (hybrid) identity security.

First we will take a look at Identity Security in Azure, as it provides the basics for most of the other techniques we will talk about.

After that,...