Cyber Security on Azure: An IT Professional’s Guide to Microsoft Azure Security Center

Prevent destructive attacks to your Azure public cloud infrastructure, remove vulnerabilities, and instantly report cloud security readiness. This book provides comprehensive guidance from a security insider’s perspective.

Cyber Security on Azure explains how this ‘security as a service’ (SECaaS) business solution can help you better manage security risk and enable data security control using encryption options such as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptography. Discover best practices to support network security groups, web application firewalls, and database auditing for threat protection. Configure custom security notifications of potential cyberattack vectors to prevent unauthorized access by hackers, hacktivists, and industrial spies.

What You’ll Learn

This book provides step-by-step guidance on how to:

• Support enterprise security policies
• Improve cloud security
• Configure intrusion detection
• Identify potential vulnerabilities
• Prevent enterprise security failures

Who This Book Is For

IT, cloud, and security administrators; CEOs, CIOs, and other business professionals

Table of Contents

Part I: All Businesses
Chapter 1: Cybersecurity: How Security Vulnerabilities Affect Your Business
Chapter 2: Azure Security Center Cost Model

Part II: Cloud Security Operations
Chapter 3: Getting Started with Azure Security Center
Chapter 4: Azure Security Center Configuration
Chapter 5: Azure Security Center Scenarios
Chapter 6: Azure Security Center Extensions

Appendix A: Troubleshooting and Cyber-Reference
Appendix B: Know Your Enemy
Appendix C: Security Frameworks