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Securing Cloud PCs and Azure Virtual Desktop

You're reading from   Securing Cloud PCs and Azure Virtual Desktop Start implementing and optimizing security for Windows 365 and AVD infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835460252
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dominiek Verham Dominiek Verham
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Johan Vanneuville Johan Vanneuville
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: An Introduction to Microsoft Virtual Desktops FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop 3. Part 2: Why Is Endpoint Security Important?
4. Chapter 2: Importance of Securing Your Desktops 5. Chapter 3: Modern Security Risks 6. Part 3: Security Controls for W365 and AVD
7. Chapter 4: Securing User Sessions 8. Chapter 5: Preventing Data Leakage from Desktops 9. Chapter 6: Update Management Strategies 10. Chapter 7: Threat Detection and Prevention 11. Chapter 8: Configuring Access Control 12. Part 4: Additional Security Controls per Solution
13. Chapter 9: Securing Windows 365 14. Chapter 10: Securing Azure Virtual Desktop 15. Chapter 11: Securing Azure Infrastructure 16. Part 5: Use Cases
17. Chapter 12: Windows 365 Use Cases 18. Chapter 13: Azure Virtual Desktop Use Cases 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Azure Bastion

It can happen that an IT admin will need to perform some administrative tasks on a virtual desktop. Connecting in a secure way can be done by using Azure Bastion. This is a fully managed PaaS service, meaning that Microsoft manages the solution completely. This allows the IT admin to connect to the Azure virtual machine using a private IP address directly from the browser. This eliminates the need for a public IP address on the session host and adds more security to the virtual desktop.

Azure Bastion is available in three versions – Developer, Basic, and Standard – with each offering its own benefits. More information about the different versions can be found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/bastion-overview.

In a typical hub-spoke network topology, the Bastion host is placed in the hub virtual network that is connected via virtual network peering to an AVD virtual network, as shown in Figure 8.13. The exception is the Developer...

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