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Mastering Azure Security

You're reading from   Mastering Azure Security Keeping your Microsoft Azure workloads safe

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238555
Length 320 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mustafa Toroman Mustafa Toroman
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Tom Janetscheck Tom Janetscheck
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Identity and Governance
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Azure Security FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Governance and Security 4. Chapter 3: Managing Cloud Identities 5. Section 2: Cloud Infrastructure Security
6. Chapter 4: Azure Network Security 7. Chapter 5: Azure Key Vault 8. Chapter 6: Data Security 9. Section 3: Security Management
10. Chapter 7: Microsoft Defender for Cloud 11. Chapter 8: Microsoft Sentinel 12. Chapter 9: Security Best Practices 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Azure Storage

Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution and is highly available, secure, and scalable, plus, it supports a variety of programming languages. It is usually the first data solution users encounter when they start using Azure and it contains several services, including Disk, Blob, Table, File, and Queue.

All communication inside Azure data centers is over HTTPS, but what happens when we access data from outside? As per the shared responsibility model (explained in Chapter 1, An Introduction to Azure Security), this falls under the user's responsibility. For newly deployed storage accounts, traffic over HTTPS is enabled by default. If required, it can be disabled, but obviously, it's not recommended. Keep in mind that HTTPS is the default option only for storage accounts created after August 2021 and previously created accounts should be revisited.

Under Configuration, there is an option called Secure transfer required. To ensure...

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