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Mastering Azure Security

You're reading from   Mastering Azure Security Keeping your Microsoft Azure workloads safe

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238555
Length 320 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mustafa Toroman Mustafa Toroman
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Tom Janetscheck Tom Janetscheck
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Identity and Governance
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Azure Security FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Governance and Security 4. Chapter 3: Managing Cloud Identities 5. Section 2: Cloud Infrastructure Security
6. Chapter 4: Azure Network Security 7. Chapter 5: Azure Key Vault 8. Chapter 6: Data Security 9. Section 3: Security Management
10. Chapter 7: Microsoft Defender for Cloud 11. Chapter 8: Microsoft Sentinel 12. Chapter 9: Security Best Practices 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cloud workload protection and multi-cloud capabilities

The second main pillar of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is Cloud Workload Protection, which is all about enhanced security features and threat intelligence. These enhanced capabilities are activated once you enable one or several of the Defender for Cloud enhanced security plans, as highlighted earlier in this chapter. As Microsoft is constantly working on improving existing and adding future plans to Defender for Cloud, we can only cover some of them in this chapter to give you an idea of what additional capabilities they provide. In general, when enabling Defender for Cloud plans, this will enable threat detection capabilities for the workload that is being protected by a plan, but also other advanced cloud defense capabilities, such as vulnerability assessments.

Microsoft Defender for Servers

One of the most popular Defender for Cloud plans is Microsoft Defender for Servers. Defender for Servers leverages the machine&apos...

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