Azure Security Cookbook: Practical recipes for securing Azure resources and operations (Paperback or Softback)

Gain critical real-world skills to secure your Microsoft Azure infrastructure against cyber attacks

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

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

1. Securing Azure AD Identities
2. Securing Azure Networks
3. Securing Remote Access
4. Securing Virtual Machines
5. Securing Azure SQL Databases
6. Securing Azure Storage
7. Using Advisor
8. Using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
9. Using Microsoft Sentinel
10. Using Traffic Analytics

Steve Miles, aka SMiles or Mr. Analogy, is a Microsoft Azure MVP, MCT, multi-cloud, and hybrid technologies author and technical reviewer with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, data center infrastructure, managed hosting, and cloud solutions. His experience comes from working in end user, reseller channel, and vendor spaces, with global networks, data and app security vendors, global telco hosters, and colocation and data center services providers, as well as in managed hosting and hardware distribution.

His roles have included network security architect, global solutions architect, public cloud security solutions architect, and Azure practice technical lead. He currently works for a leading multi-cloud distributor based in the UK and Dublin in a cloud and hybrid technology leadership role.

Most happy in front of a whiteboard, he prefers to speak using illustrations. He is renowned for his analogies for breaking down complex technologies and concepts into everyday, real-world scenarios.

His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT. 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, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security and networking vendor certifications, including PRINCE2 and ITIL, and is associated with industry bodies such as the CIF, ISCA, and IISP. Finally, as part of the multicloud aspect, he has experience with GCP and AWS, is Alibaba-Cloud-certified, and is a nominated Alibaba Cloud MVP.