Azure Security Infrastructure: IT Best Practices

Implement maximum control, security, and compliance processes in Azure cloud environmentsInMicrosoft 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