A unified SecOps experience

As organizations deploy cloud applications and provide access for remote workers, maintaining consistency to ensure cloud compliance, avoiding misconfigurations, reducing the risk of potential attacks, and achieving organization-wide governance can become a huge challenge.

You can enforce organizational standards to assess compliance at scale using Azure Policy and evaluate compliance by evaluating the properties of your resources through policy definitions. Azure Policy provides a compliance dashboard that can be used to see more granular details per resource or per policy, which ensures your resources are compliant. In addition, you can define Azure initiatives, which are a collection of Azure policy definitions, to help you achieve your goals and simplify the management of your policies:

Figure 6.12: Policy compliance

Within this context, your organization can utilize a new capability in Azure Policy called Regulatory...