Summary

In this chapter, we summarized the Azure cloud security best practices to use IAM services and Azure Security Center, manage VMs and vNets, and secure cloud data. We focused on two Azure security reference architectures – the Azure hybrid cloud infrastructure, and the Azure SIEM and SOAR framework. Finally, we conducted a case study where we designed and implemented a VWAN security architecture, with Palo Alto virtual appliances separating the trusted and untrusted traffic.

This chapter ends the third part of the book, Azure Cloud. In this part, we covered the Azure cloud by exploring its foundation services of compute, storage, and network; the data services of databases and big data; the ML services of the Azure ML workspace and cognitive services; and the cloud security services. Since we already discussed the AWS and Google clouds in Part 1 and Part 2 of the book, we discussed more advanced cloud services and complicated case studies in this third part, aiming...