Section 3: Secure Storage, Applications, and Data

Modern applications interact with different types of data stores and external services. As you can imagine, these data stores and external services are prime targets for attackers looking to steal sensitive information from organizations! This section will walk you through how to mitigate risks to your applications and data by implementing encryption at rest and in transit, network and user access management, threat protection capabilities, secrets management, and more. By the end of this section, you will be well equipped to mitigate the risks of your cloud applications being breached and your data being stolen.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 10, Implementing Storage Security
• Chapter 11, Implementing Database Security
• Chapter 12, Implementing Secrets, Keys, and Certificate Management with Key Vault
• Chapter 13, Azure Cloud Governance and Security Operations