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Steve Miles
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Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.
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Other protection solutions

Azure, in addition, provides the following two services that provide critical application-delivery protection and security:

  • Azure Application Gateway provides a secure way of load balancing to service endpoints such as VMs and can be used for SSL termination, also called SSL offloading. Azure Application Gateway also provides web application firewall (WAF) capabilities to protect internet-facing web applications from application-layer attacks (L7); distribution of traffic is to endpoints within a region only.
  • The Azure Front Door service provides an application delivery network (ADN) service. It also provides layer 7 (application layer) load balancing, WAF, and content acceleration capabilities for applications; however, it operates at the geographic layer and is not regional.

While both Front Door and Application Gateway are layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancers, the primary difference is that Front Door is a global app delivery service...

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Steve Miles

Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.
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