Implementing network security
Azure Synapse Analytics helps protect your data by using IP firewall rules. We can also use the managed workspace virtual network to isolate one workspace from another. We are going to learn about these options in the following sections.
Managed workspace virtual network
Azure Synapse provides you with the option to enable a managed workspace virtual network while creating your Synapse workspace. It ensures that your workspace is isolated from another workspace. If you have enabled a managed workspace virtual network in your Synapse workspace, then data integration and Spark resources are also deployed in the same virtual network; however, SQL pools (dedicated or serverless) reside outside this managed virtual network.
You can go through the following steps to enable a managed workspace virtual network on your Synapse workspace while creating it:
- Log in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
- Click on the + Create a resource...