You're reading from Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond Gain practical skills to secure your Azure environment and pass the AZ-500 exam

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562653

Length 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

David Okeyode

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Implement Identity and Access Security for Azure

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Security FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Azure AD

4. Chapter 3: Azure AD Hybrid Identity

5. Chapter 4: Azure AD Identity Security

6. Chapter 5: Azure AD Identity Governance

7. Section 2: Implement Azure Platform Protection

8. Chapter 6: Implementing Perimeter Security

9. Chapter 7: Implementing Network Security

10. Chapter 8: Implementing Host Security

11. Chapter 9: Implementing Container Security

12. Section 3: Secure Storage, Applications, and Data

13. Chapter 10: Implementing Storage Security

14. Chapter 11: Implementing Database Security

15. Chapter 12: Implementing Secrets, Keys, and Certificate Management with Key Vault

16. Chapter 13: Azure Cloud Governance and Security Operations

17. Assessments

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 8: Implementing Host Security

The Azure cloud platform offers a broad range of computing services, including user-managed options such as Virtual Machines (VMs), Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSSes), and Windows Virtual Desktops (WVDs). User-managed compute options provide a greater level of flexibility when we host applications on them. This is because we can install any application or dependency that is needed since we have control of the operating system. This also means that we are responsible for securing the services from the operating system level and upward in the stack.

In this chapter, we will focus on the key security best practices that we can implement to protect user-managed computing resources in Azure. The following are the main topics that we will cover alongside this chapter's hands-on exercises: