Get to grips with artificial intelligence and cybersecurity techniques to respond to adversaries and incidents

Key Features

• Learn how to secure your Azure cloud workloads across applications and networks
• Protect your Azure infrastructure from cyber attacks
• Discover tips and techniques for implementing, deploying, and maintaining secure cloud services using best practices

Book Description

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 learn

• Become well-versed with cloud security concepts
• Get the hang of managing cloud identities
• Understand the zero-trust approach
• Adopt the Azure security cloud infrastructure
• Protect and encrypt your data
• Grasp Azure network security concepts
• Discover how to keep cloud resources secure
• Implement cloud governance with security policies and rules

Who this book is for

This 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.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to Azure Security
2. Governance and Security
3. Managing Cloud Identities
4. Azure Network Security
5. Azure KeyVault
6. Data Security
7. Microsoft Defender for Cloud
8. Microsoft Sentinel
9. Security Best Practices

Review

"This book provides exactly as the title describes – Mastering Azure Security.

It is a great balance between giving the reader the theoretical understanding while putting that knowledge into practical use by displaying how to use the features with accompanying code snippets or examples from the Azure Portal. The book is very readable, the table of contents is good, and it is overall well-structured. Also functions well as a reference guide once you have finished it."

Alexander Kappel (Cloud Security Engineer)

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.