Microsoft Azure Security - Getting Started
Your business may depend on avoiding data breaches in your Microsoft Azure deployments. In this course, you'll learn how to secure your Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployments according to Microsoft's best practices and architectural patterns.
What you'll learn
Security in the Microsoft Azure cloud can be complex, and the stakes are high. This course, Microsoft Azure Security - Getting Started, will provide you with the skills you need to deploy Azure solutions competently and confidently according to Microsoft security best practices and patterns. First, you'll cover security terminology and develop a thorough grounding of general cloud computing security principles. Next, you'll explore configuring both host-level and deployment-level security. Finally, you'll learn the ins and outs of how to utilize Azure Security Center, the automated intelligence engine. By the end of this course, you'll be able to apply what you've learned immediately to current and future Azure Resource Manager deployments.
Table of contents
- Overview 1m
- Security Terminology Review 4m
- Storage Account Security Basics 3m
- Data Plane Security 2m
- Encryption in Transit 2m
- Encryption at Rest 1m
- Storage Analytics 2m
- Demo: Introducing Azure Storage Explorer 5m
- Demo: Configuring Azure Storage Account Security 3m
- Protect the VM Operating System Environment 4m
- Demo: Secure a VM During Deployment 6m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 0m
- What to Keep in Mind to Be Successful 4m
- Network Security Groups (NSGs) 2m
- Load Balancers and NAT 2m
- Forced Tunneling and Network Security Appliances 3m
- Demo: Azure Load Balancer Configuration 3m
- Demo: NSG Configuration 1m
- Role-based Access Control (RBAC) 2m
- Azure Resource Manager Policies 2m
- Demo: Test Role-based Access Control 3m
- Demo: Test ARM Policies 6m
- Summary 2m
Course FAQ
In this course, you will learn the skills you need to deploy Azure solutions competently and confidently according to Microsoft security best practices and patterns.
This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to best utilize Microsoft's Azure Security platform.
A network security group contains security rules that allow or deny inbound network traffic to, or outbound network traffic from, several types of Azure resources.
Some benefits of Azure Resurce Manager (ARM) is that ARM lets you deploy, manage and monitor all the Azure resources. Other benefits include templates, access control, resource tagging, and you can define dependencies.
Azure Security Center (ASC) is a solution that provides unified security management across hybrid cloud workloads.
About the author
Timothy Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management who is based in Nashville, TN. His professional specialties include Microsoft Azure, cross-platform PowerShell, and all things Windows Server-related. You can reach Tim via Twitter (@TechTrainerTim), LinkedIn or his blog, AzureDepot.com.
