Mastering Azure Security: Safeguard your Azure workload with innovative cloud security measures

263 Pages·2020·7.445 MB·English

by  Mustafa Toroman, Tom Janetscheck

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Mustafa Toroman and Tom Janetscheck
Mastering
Azure Security
Safeguard your Azure workload with innovative
cloud security measures
Mustafa Toroman
Tom Janetscheck

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Mastering Azure Security
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About the authors
Mustafa Toroman is a program architect and lead system engineer with Authority
Partners. With years of experience in designing and monitoring infrastructure solutions,
lately, he focuses on designing new solutions in the cloud and migrating existing
solutions to the cloud. He is very interested in DevOps processes, and he's also an
Infrastructure-as-Code enthusiast. Mustafa has over 50 Microsoft certificates and has
been an MCT for the last 8 years. He often speaks at international conferences about
cloud technologies, and he was awarded the MVP for Microsoft Azure in 2016. Mustafa
also authored Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure and Azure Networking Cookbook,
and the coauthored Learn Node.js with Azure, all published by Packt.
Tom Janetscheck is a cloud security expert from Germany. He has more than 15 years of
experience in designing, building, and monitoring on premises and cloud infrastructure
solutions, and a focus on security architecture in the Microsoft cloud, making him a
resource on all things Azure and enterprise security.
Tom is a well-known international conference speaker with a proven track record of
attendee satisfaction. Since 2017, he received the Microsoft MVP award several times
for his extraordinary community contributions in the area of Microsoft Azure Security.
In his spare time, Tom is an enthusiastic motorcyclist, scuba diver, guitarist, bass player,
drummer, and station officer at the local fire department.
About the reviewer
Sasha Kranjac is a cloud and security expert, architect, and instructor with more than
2 decades of experience in the field. He began programming in Assembler on Sir Clive
Sinclair's ZX, met Windows NT 3.5, and the love has existed ever since. Sasha owns an IT
training and consulting company that helps companies embrace the cloud and be safe in
cyberspace. Aside from cloud/security architecture and consulting, he delivers Microsoft,
EC-Council, and his own bespoke Azure and security courses and PowerClass workshops
internationally. Sasha is a Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), MCT
Regional Lead, Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI), and a frequent speaker at various
international conferences, user groups, and events.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1:
Identity and Governance
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Introduction to Azure security
Exploring the shared Azure network 8
responsibility model 4 Azure infrastructure availability 10
On-premises 5 Azure infrastructure integrity 12
Infrastructure as a Service 5
Azure infrastructure monitoring 12
Platform as a Service 5
Understanding Azure security
Software as a Service 5
foundations 13
Division of security in the shared
responsibility model 5 Summary 15
Questions 15
Physical security 7
2
Governance and Security
Understanding governance in Understanding Azure Policy 27
Azure 18
Mode 28
Using common sense to avoid Parameters 29
mistakes 20 Policy assignments 32
Using management locks 21 Initiative definitions 32
Initiative assignments 32
Using management groups for
Policy best practices 32
governance 23
ii Table of Contents
Defining Azure blueprints 33 PowerShell 40
Blueprint definitions 34 Querying Azure Resource Graph with
Blueprint publishing 35 the Azure CLI 42
Advanced queries 43
Azure Resource Graph 39
Summary 44
Querying Azure Resource Graph with
Questions 44
3
Managing Cloud Identities
Exploring passwords and Understanding RBAC 76
passphrases 48
Creating custom RBAC roles 80
Dictionary attacks and password
Protecting admin accounts with
protection 50
Azure AD PIM 83
Understanding Multi-Factor
Enabling PIM 84
Authentication (MFA) 52
Managing Azure AD roles in PIM 85
MFA activation in Azure AD 54 Managing Azure resources with PIM 88
MFA activation from a user's perspective 57
Hybrid authentication and SSO 89
Using Conditional Access 61
Understanding passwordless
Named locations 63 authentication 93
Custom controls 64
Global settings 95
Terms of use 65
Conditional Access policies 65 Licensing considerations 95
Summary 96
Introducing Azure AD Identity
Questions 96
Protection 70
Azure AD Identity Protection at a glance 71
Section 2:
Cloud Infrastructure Security
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Azure Network Security
Understanding Azure Virtual Connecting on-premises networks with
Network 102 Azure 108
Table of Contents iii
Creating an S2S connection 109 Understanding Azure
Connecting a VNet to another VNet 113 Application Gateway 123
VNet service endpoints 116 Understanding Azure Front
Door 125
Considering other virtual
Summary 125
networks' security 119
Questions 125
Azure Firewall deployment and
configuration 119
5
Azure Key Vault
Understanding Azure Key Vault 128 deployment scenarios 136
Understanding access policies 129 Creating an Azure key vault and a
secret 137
Understanding service-to-
Azure VM deployment 140
service authentication 130
Summary 144
Understanding Managed Identities
for Azure Resources 133 Questions 144
Using Azure Key Vault in
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Data Security
Technical requirements 147 Machines disks 153
Understanding Azure Storage 148 Summary 164
Understanding Azure Virtual Questions 164
Section 3:
Security Management
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Azure Security Center
Introducing Azure Security Azure Secure Score and
Center 169 recommendations 176
Enabling Azure Security Center 173 Working with recommendations 178