What this book covers

Chapter 1, Securing Azure AD Identities, teaches users how to secure and protect Azure AD identities. We will break down the chapter into sections on reviewing Azure AD identity secure scores, implementing Identity and Access Management on Azure AD tenants, implementing Azure AD Password Protection, implementing Self-Service Password Reset, implementing the Azure AD security defaults, implementing Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication, implementing Conditional Access policies, implementing Azure AD Identity Protection, and implementing Azure AD Privileged Identity Management.

Chapter 2, Securing Azure Networks, explains how to secure and protect Azure networks. We will break down the chapter into sections covering implementing Network Security Groups, implementing Azure Firewall, implementing Azure Web Application Firewall, and implementing Azure DDoS.

Chapter 3, Securing Remote Access, focuses on how to secure and protect remote access. We will break down the chapter into sections covering implementing the Azure Bastion service, implementing Azure Network Adapter, and implementing Just-in-Time (JIT) VM access.

Chapter 4, Securing Virtual Machines, takes securing and protecting Azure VMs as its subject. We will break down the chapter into sections on implementing VM Update Management, implementing VM Microsoft antimalware, and implementing Disk Encryption for Azure VMs.

Chapter 5, Securing Azure SQL Databases, discusses how to secure and protect Azure databases. We will break down the chapter into sections on implementing a service-level IP firewall, implementing a private endpoint, and implementing Azure AD authentication and authorization.

Chapter 6, Securing Azure Storage, breaks down how to secure and protect Azure storage. We will break down the chapter into sections covering implementing security settings on storage accounts, implementing network security, and implementing encryption.

Chapter 7, Using Advisor, explores how to secure and protect Azure environments using the Advisor recommendations engine. We will break down the chapter into sections on the security recommendations and secure scores and perform the implementation of recommendations.

Chapter 8, Using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, demonstrates the components of Defender for Cloud, as well as how to enable the enhanced security features of Defender for Cloud, add a regulatory standard to the regulatory compliance dashboard, and assess environment regulatory compliance against the added standard.

Chapter 9, Using Microsoft Sentinel, walks through enabling Microsoft Sentinel and how to review the components, create automation, set up a data connector, and create an analytics rule.

Chapter 10, Using Traffic Analytics, covers the implementation of Traffic Analytics.