Using Advisor

In the previous chapter, we looked at securing the available storage services in Azure. We looked at how the shared responsibility model for public cloud platform providers requires the customer to have implemented the appropriate solutions and controls to ensure their storage is secure and protected.

This previous chapter concluded part one of this cookbook, where we looked at Azure’s security features and capabilities as a first-party solution. We covered recipes that provided security for identities, networks, remote access, VMs, databases, and storage.

This first chapter in Part 2 of the cookbook, which covers Azure Security Tools, looks at the first of these tools, Advisor.

In this chapter, you will learn how to secure and protect Azure environments using the security aspects of the Advisor recommendations engine. Advisor can also provide recommendations for reliability, performance, cost, and operational excellence, although these are beyond the...