Implementing Azure Role-Based Access Control

RBAC guarantees that you have appropriate permissions to perform specific actions on Azure resources. By assigning roles to users, administrators can enforce fine-grained access control, ensuring security, compliance, and efficient data management.

This section deals with restricting data access to unauthorized users and satisfies the requirement of the sample IAC requirements established in the Implementing Data Masking section:

Not everyone should have access to all the data. It should be on a need-to-know basis.

Azure uses and recommends the principle of least privilege, which means assigning the least possible privilege required to accomplish a task. You will see how RBAC helps to achieve this goal.

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This section primarily focuses on the Implement Azure role-based access control (RBAC) concept of the DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure exam.

Azure RBAC is an authorization system that controls who can access...