Security

As mentioned before, security is an important element for any software or service. Adequate security should be implemented so that an application can only be used by people who are allowed to access it, and users should not be able to perform operations that they are not allowed to execute. Similarly, the entire request-response mechanism should be built using methods that ensure that only intended parties can understand messages, and to make sure that it is easy to detect whether messages have been tampered with or not.

For the following reasons, security in Azure is even more important. Firstly, the organizations deploying their applications are not in full control of the underlying hardware and networks. Secondly, security has to be built into every layer, including hardware, networks, operating systems, platforms, and applications. Any omissions or misconfigurations can render an application vulnerable to intruders. For example, you might have heard of the...