Securing and managing traffic to your workloads

Security is a shared responsibility between Microsoft, partners, and customers. Azure provides security controls and services to protect identity, network, and data resources.

In the previous section Azure Active Directory, we reviewed how you can leverage identity and management features available with Azure AD to ensure secure access to data and resources. Protecting the infrastructure and workloads for remote access on a daily basis is a critical task and Microsoft provides enterprise-grade solutions to secure the traffic to your applications, whether they are delivered through Azure or from an on-premises location.

Azure can help protect your cloud infrastructure by using network security controls to manage traffic, configuring access rules, extending connectivity to your on-premises resources, and protecting your virtual network.

One of the principal services that you can use to protect web applications is Azure Web Application...