I hope everyone has a joyful festive season with family and has more than one reason to celebrate. In the spirit of the season, We (#cloudmarathoner community) rolled our sleeves and produced two sessions for the Fesive Tech Calendar 2023 event.
The first session – “The 12 Bicep πͺ Tips of Christmas: Best Practices for Azure Deployment” is done in collaboration with Kasun Rajapakse – a Microsoft Azure MVP and a #cloudmarathoner community contributor.
In this session, we invite you to take a trip to Azure with ‘The 12 Bicep Tips of Christmas: Best Practices for Azure Deployment.’ We encourage you to open the present of knowledge as we show you the ropes and help you use Azure Bicep to its best potential. By joining us you will spread good cheer for a prosperous and trouble-free Azure experience this holiday season in honor of efficient cloud management.
We live in a rapidly evolving security landscape π π‘ with new challenges every day. Even after the pandemic, our work continues to be blended with remote work where many organizations enabled the BYOD policies to increase productivity of the people.
Growing landscape of cybersecurity attacks
Relaxed controls on IT assets, welcomed potential vulnerabilities, and attack surfaces are also expanded adding layers of complexity to corporate IT to perform their task to defend and enable organizational services.
Zero Trust model aligned services
Zero Trust model offered by leading industry players likeΒ MicrosoftΒ offers comprehensive solutions to our security challenges. Let’s consider those services and their benefits that are listed below:
β Security Posture Management It is enhanced with Azure Policy and Azure Blueprints by defining and enforcing compliance and control guardrails on Azure resources
β Identities Are strengthened using Entra ID (aka, Azure AD) providing robust authentication and authorization.
β Endpoint Management Services like Microsoft Intune and Entra ID Join manage the corporate and BYOD devices with strict compliance
β Web App protection Azure Defender for Cloud & Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects app services by using bleeding-edge security features
β Data security Remains top priority in transit and rest with advanced security features of Azure Storage services by providing encrypted, reliable, and scalable solutions
β Infrastructure security Secrets and certificates are protected with Azure Key Vault services and Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers comprehensive threat protection from day zero
β Network Security Azure network services like Azure Firewall and Virtual Networks are ensuring traffic is secure and segmented
β Conditional Access & Controls App and data access is guarded by Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Conditional Access services by enforcing specific access controls and providing visibility of your SaaS app landscape to help protect your apps.
β Modern SIEM and SOAR solution The Azure Sentinel stands as a cloud-native solution that combines capabilities by centralizing threat detection and response.
In Summary
In summary, Microsoft Azure provides tools and services that are specifically designed to address growing concerns of vulnerabilities that your IT and Security team are tasked to deal with by following Zero Trust principles.
[π Credit] Microsoft Zero Trust & Conditional Access docs
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