Mastering Azure Security: Keeping your Microsoft Azure workloads safe, Edition 2
About this ebook
Security is integrated into every cloud, but this makes users put their guard down as they take cloud security for granted. Although the cloud provides higher security, keeping their resources secure is one of the biggest challenges many organizations face as threats are constantly evolving. Microsoft Azure offers a shared responsibility model that can address any challenge with the right approach.
Revised to cover product updates up to early 2022, this book will help you explore a variety of services and features from Microsoft Azure that can help you overcome challenges in cloud security. You'll start by learning the most important security concepts in Azure, their implementation, and then advance to understanding how to keep resources secure. The book will guide you through the tools available for monitoring Azure security and enforcing security and governance the right way. You'll also explore tools to detect threats before they can do any real damage and those that use machine learning and AI to analyze your security logs and detect anomalies.
By the end of this cloud security book, you'll have understood cybersecurity in the cloud and be able to design secure solutions in Microsoft Azure.
What you will learnBecome well-versed with cloud security conceptsGet the hang of managing cloud identitiesUnderstand the zero-trust approachAdopt the Azure security cloud infrastructureProtect and encrypt your dataGrasp Azure network security conceptsDiscover how to keep cloud resources secureImplement cloud governance with security policies and rulesWho this book is forThis book is for Azure cloud professionals, Azure architects, and security professionals looking to implement secure cloud services using Azure Security Centre and other Azure security features. A solid understanding of fundamental security concepts and prior exposure to the Azure cloud will help you understand the key concepts covered in the book more effectively.
About the author
Mustafa Toroman is a solution architect focused on cloud-native applications and migrating existing systems to the cloud. He is very interested in DevOps processes and cybersecurity, and he is also an Infrastructure as Code enthusiast and DevOps InstituteAmbassador. Mustafa often speaks at international conferences about cloud technologies. He has been an MVP for Microsoft Azure since 2016 and a C# Corner MVP since 2020. Mustafa has also authored several books about Microsoft Azure and cloud computing, all published by Packt.
Tom Janetscheck is a senior program manager at Microsoft's Cloud Security CxE team for Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Prior to this, he has been working in different internal and external IT and consulting roles for almost two decades, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure, architecture, and security. As a well-known international conference speaker, tech blogger, and book author, and as one of the founders and organizers of the Azure Saturday community conferences, the former Microsoft MVP is actively taking his experience into international tech communities. In his spare time, Tom is an enthusiastic motorcyclist, scuba diver, guitarist, bassist, rookie drummer, and station officer at a local fire department.
