Applying the right security strategy for legal requirements

In this last section, we want to briefly explore the most important topics about Azure and security, so that you can get a toehold in this area to provide a suitable strategy for a hybrid approach. We start with service regions and finish with an overview of Microsoft certifications.

Service regions

To decide the correct strategy it's very important that you know that the core Azure Active Directory service is a global service. So your identities will be replicated over the whole world. For example, with Office 365 you can define in which location/datacenter the service should run. You say YEAH! - But what about the identities! Be aware that you need to be sure that your identities and the associated attributes are allowed to be replicated to the US.

Microsoft certifications

Microsoft invests a lot of money in governance, risk, and compliance to provide the best security strategies and controls for their customers. They have already...