Technical requirements
To follow along with the instructions in this chapter, you will need the following:
- A PC with an internet connection.
- An Azure subscription. You can use the same subscription that you set up in Chapter 1, Introduction to Azure Security.
Before we proceed and cover security best practices, let's prepare our Azure subscription for the hands-on exercises that we will be completing later in this chapter.
Hands-on exercise – provisioning resources for this chapter's exercises
To follow along with the exercises in this chapter, we will provision some Azure resources to work with. We have prepared an Azure ARM template in this book's GitHub repository for this purpose. The template will deploy an Azure virtual network with a single subnet. This subnet will have a Windows Server 2019 VM that can be reached from the public internet. Here are the tasks that we will complete in this exercise:
- Task 1: Initialize template...