1. Security and Compliance in Azure
In the video, we’ll be exploring essential Azure security and compliance features. Let’s dive in!
2. Think security
Now, why is security so important? Imagine logging into your online banking and finding out that the application wasn’t secure. You’d have entered your username and password, and a stranger on the internet could access this information and use it to log in and steal your money. That’s why security is paramount!
Data security and compliance are vital for maintaining customer trust in any organization. Additionally, global regulations around platform security can have legal implications for your business.
3. Azure Security Center
Azure offers robust security via its Azure Security Center. It provides unified security management and advanced threat protection across your resources, offering recommendations and insights to strengthen security and protect against threads. It’s the base layer for monitoring the security of resources.
4. Azure Policy
Azure Policy is a service used to enforce organization-wide standards and assess compliance at scale, both against corporate and regulatory standards such as GDPR.
5. Azure Blueprints
Azure Blueprints enable consistency across your resource deployments by combining templates and policies to meet organizational standards and best practices. Azure has a Security and Compliance GDPR Blueprint available to help customers meet GDPR requirements.
6. Data Protection and Identity
Now let’s assess the various data protection and identity measures that Azure has to offer: Encryption, Access Control, Key Vaults, and Information Protection.
7. Encryption
Azure uses encryption to secure data when stored, at rest, and during transmission.
8. Encryption
We can compare encryption at rest and in transit, like securing your money in an unbreakable safe and transporting it in an armored truck. In the event a thief somehow gained access to the storage or intercepted it during transit - the encrypted data would be indecipherable, adding an extra layer of protection against potential breaches.
9. Role-based access control
Azure’s access controls use role-based access control (RBAC) to allocate precise permissions. This includes defining custom or pre-defined roles and assigning them to select users or user groups to ensure the right level of access is granted. General roles include contributor, owner, reader, role-based access control administrator, and user access administrator. But there are even more custom groups depending on the service.
10. Network security
From a network security perspective, Azure provides several tools, including Network Security Groups, Firewalls, and DDoS protection.
11. Network security groups
Network security groups enable filtering and control of both inbound and outbound traffic, enabling administrations to set and enforce security rules regarding network interactions.
12. Firewall
Firewall is a cloud security service in Azure that provides advanced threat protection by analyzing and filtering network traffic, and enabling only safe and approved connections to and from Azure resources.
13. DDoS protection
You might be familiar with the term Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attacks, where a website is flooded with fake traffic to make it inaccessible to real users.
14. DDoS protection
Azure DDoS protection acts like a security guard, filtering through the crowd and allowing access to only genuine users. It is a continuous guard against large-scale DDoS attacks.
15. Managing security
Azure has various services that can help manage security within your environment. These include Sentinel, Azure Information Protection, and Key Vault.
16. Managing security
Sentinel is a tool for detecting and managing threats.
17. Managing security
Azure information protection helps to protect, classify, and govern sensitive information.
18. Managing security
Finally, Key Vault helps securely store keys, passwords, and other secrets.
19. Compliance
Azure ensures it adheres to various global compliance standards and certifications, including ISO, IEC, and GDPR.
20. Let's practice!
Now it's time to practice what you've learned! Good luck!