Summary
In this chapter, you saw how the Security Development Lifecycle is applicable for Windows Azure projects. It describes what activities need to be deployed and what additional efforts need to be put in your project to ensure you think of all possible security and privacy breaches. It describes typical activities in all the phases of projects—requirements, design, implementation, verification, and release. Also privacy regulations and industry standards that Microsoft complies with were described along with some measures that were taken to mitigate risks in general. Finally, it also showed some typical security features around SQL Database.
Besides the SDL story, the chapter also showed you some general best practices on security topics in the Windows Azure world. This chapter does not tell you anything new but merely points out some slight but important differences from traditional development.
The next chapter provides an overview of the new features released on June 7, 2012. Microsoft...
