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Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services for Architects

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services for Architects Designing Cloud Solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119596578
Length 448 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Savill John Savill
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

1. Cover FREE CHAPTER
2. Acknowledgments
3. About the Author
4. Introduction
5. Chapter 1 The Cloud and Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 6. Chapter 2 Governance 7. Chapter 3 Identity 8. Chapter 4 Identity Security and Extended Identity Services 9. Chapter 5 Networking 10. Chapter 6 Storage 11. Chapter 7 Azure Compute 12. Chapter 8 Azure Stack 13. Chapter 9 Backup, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Migration 14. Chapter 10 Monitoring and Security 15. Chapter 11 Managing Azure 16. Chapter 12 What to Do Next 17. Index
18. End User License Agreement

Azure AD Security

This section will explore key considerations around Azure AD security, with a focus on the user. As with any type of security, you can be secure and out of business—that is, an organization can implement great security that renders the business unable to function. The key is to provide security while not significantly impacting the ability of business to function.

Multi-Factor Authentication

You can barely read any identity security article today without seeing the words “the password is dead.” I don’t think this is actually true yet, but the industry is definitely heading in that direction. Passwords are unpopular for a number of reasons, but the primary reason is that they are a network secret. If I know a password, I can use it from anywhere on anything. That is very different from a PIN, which only works on a specific device. A challenge with passwords is making them complex enough so they are not prone to brute force attacks while not...

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