Understanding governance and compliance
Many companies and organizations define rules that they expect their employees to abide by. Sometimes these rules align with a corporate mission, such as high levels of quality; some are for legal requirements, such as the need to protect customers' data.
When people and systems implement these rules, it is known as compliance, and the act of ensuring compliance is known as governance.
Sometimes, compliance and governance are manual tasks – a paper process to confirm the rules are being enacted. Azure provides you with tools to help you both codify and provide automatic governance to these compliance rules, thus automating much of it.
By placing automated systems within our organization, we speed up and ensure the highest compliance levels, thus saving costs while ensuring corporate principles are met.
We will begin by looking at one of the core governance toolsets in Azure, the ability to control what resources people...
