Describe Azure DDoS protection
In Chapter 3, Understanding Key Security Concepts, you learned about common threats, including DDoS attacks. To review, DDoS attacks are created by an attacker deploying a bot to flood your Internet Service Provider (ISP) with requests to your resources, such as your web applications. The flood of requests overloads the ability to process requests, and legitimate users receive responses that the site is unavailable. This attack doesn't steal from the company but can have an impact on revenue from an e-commerce site not being available.
Microsoft provides basic DDoS protection at no cost to all Azure subscriptions and protects the perimeter layer within defense in depth. This is a win-win for Microsoft and its customers. If you think about how a DDoS attack works, a successful attack on a customer that is using Microsoft Azure will also affect other customers that are using the same ISP as the customer under attack. Therefore, it is in Microsoft...
