Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond: Gain practical skills to secure your Azure environment and pass the AZ-500 exam

Book Synopsis: Excel at AZ-500 and implement multi-layered security controls to protect against rapidly evolving threats to Azure environments – now with the latest updates to the certification

Key Features

• Master AZ-500 exam objectives and learn real-world Azure security strategies
• Develop practical skills to protect your organization from constantly evolving security threats
• Effectively manage security governance, policies, and operations in Azure

Book Description

Exam preparation for the AZ-500 means you'll need to master all aspects of the Azure cloud platform and know how to implement them. With the help of this book, you'll gain both the knowledge and the practical skills to significantly reduce the attack surface of your Azure workloads and protect your organization from constantly evolving threats to public cloud environments like Azure.

While exam preparation is one of its focuses, this book isn't just a comprehensive security guide for those looking to take the Azure Security Engineer certification exam, but also a valuable resource for those interested in securing their Azure infrastructure and keeping up with the latest updates. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide builds a solid foundation of Azure security. You'll not only learn about security technologies in Azure but also be able to configure and manage them. Moreover, you'll develop a clear understanding of how to identify different attack vectors and mitigate risks.

By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with implementing multi-layered security to protect identities, networks, hosts, containers, databases, and storage in Azure – and more than ready to tackle the AZ-500.

What you will learn

• Manage users, groups, service principals, and roles effectively in Azure AD
• Explore Azure AD identity security and governance capabilities
• Understand how platform perimeter protection secures Azure workloads
• Implement network security best practices for IaaS and PaaS
• Discover various options to protect against DDoS attacks
• Secure hosts and containers against evolving security threats
• Configure platform governance with cloud-native tools
• Monitor security operations with Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel

Who this book is for

This book is a comprehensive resource aimed at those preparing for the Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500) certification exam, as well as security professionals who want to keep up to date with the latest updates. Whether you're a newly qualified or experienced security professional, cloud administrator, architect, or developer who wants to understand how to secure your Azure environment and workloads, this book is for you. Beginners without foundational knowledge of the Azure cloud platform might progress more slowly, but those who know the basics will have no trouble following along.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Azure Security
2. Understanding Azure AD
3. Azure AD Hybrid Identity
4. Azure AD Identity Security
5. Azure AD Identity Governance
6. Implementing Perimeter Security
7. Implementing Network Security
8. Implementing Host Security
9. Implementing Container Security
10. Implementing Storage Security
11. Implementing Database Security
12. Implementing Secrets, Keys, and Certificate Management with Key Vault
13. Azure Cloud Governance and Security Operations