Summary

Security is always an important aspect of any deployment or solution. It has become much more important and relevant because of deployment to the cloud. Moreover, there is an increasing threat of cyberattacks. In these circumstances, security has become a focal point for organizations. No matter the type of deployment or solution, whether it's IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS, security is needed across all of them. Azure datacenters are completely secure, and they have a dozen international security certifications. They are secure by default. They provide IaaS security resources, such as NSGs, network address translation, secure endpoints, certificates, key vaults, storage, virtual machine encryption, and PaaS security features for individual PaaS resources. Security has a complete life cycle of its own and it should be properly planned, designed, implemented, and tested, just like any other application functionality.

We discussed operating system firewalls and Azure Firewall and...