Gain critical real-world skills to secure your Microsoft Azure infrastructure against cyber attacks
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Key Features
- Dive into practical recipes for implementing security solutions for Microsoft Azure resources
- Learn how to implement Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel
- Work with real-world examples of Azure Platform security capabilities to develop skills quickly
Book Description
With evolving threats, securing your cloud workloads and resources is of utmost importance. Azure Security Cookbook is your comprehensive guide to understanding specific problems related to Azure security and finding the solutions to these problems.
This book starts by introducing you to recipes on securing and protecting Azure Active Directory (AD) identities. After learning how to secure and protect Azure networks, you'll explore ways of securing Azure remote access and securing Azure virtual machines, Azure databases, and Azure storage. As you advance, you'll also discover how to secure and protect Azure environments using the Azure Advisor recommendations engine and utilize the Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel tools. Finally, you'll be able to implement traffic analytics; visualize traffic; and identify cyber threats as well as suspicious and malicious activity.
By the end of this Azure security book, you will have an arsenal of solutions that will help you secure your Azure workload and resources.
What you will learn
- Find out how to implement Azure security features and tools
- Understand how to provide actionable insights into security incidents
- Gain confidence in securing Azure resources and operations
- Shorten your time to value for applying learned skills in real-world cases
- Follow best practices and choices based on informed decisions
- Better prepare for Microsoft certification with a security element
Who this book is for
This book is for Azure security professionals, Azure cloud professionals, Azure architects, and security professionals looking to implement secure cloud services using Microsoft Defender for Cloud 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. This book is also beneficial for those aiming to take Microsoft certification exams with a security element or focus.
Table of Contents
- Securing Azure AD Identities
- Securing Azure Networks
- Securing Remote Access
- Securing Virtual Machines
- Securing Azure SQL Databases
- Securing Azure Storage
- Using Advisor
- Using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Using Microsoft Sentinel
- Using Traffic Analytics
Steve Miles, aka SMiles or Mr. Analogy, is a Microsoft Azure Hybrid MVP, MCT, and multi-cloud and hybrid technologies author and technical reviewer with over 20 years of experience in networking, data center infrastructure, managed hosting, and cloud solutions. His experience comes from working with end users and reseller channels and in vendor spaces and roles with a global network and app security vendor, with global telco hosters, in managed hosting, with colocation and data center service providers, and in hardware distribution. Currently, he is working for a multi-Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) distributor based in the UK and Dublin in a cloud and hybrid technology leadership role.His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows Server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments.Most happy in front of a whiteboard, he prefers to communicate using illustrations. He is renowned for breaking down complex technologies with analogies and concepts into everyday, real-world scenarios.His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows Server and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure Security, Identity, Network, and M365. He also holds multiple security and networking vendor certifications.Finally, as part of the multi-cloud domain, he has experience with GCP, AWS, an Alibaba Cloud MVP, and is Alibaba Cloud-certified.
