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Published inMar 2023
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Steve Miles
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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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Implementing network security

We must secure not only the storage account itself but also the network we use for access; this enforces our defense-in-depth strategy.

This recipe will teach you to secure network access to your storage accounts.

We will look at the network access settings that can be configured when creating storage accounts, virtual network access, and implementing a storage IP firewall.

This recipe requires the following:

  • A device with a browser, such as Edge or Chrome, to access the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
  • Access to an Azure subscription, where you have access to the Owner role for the Azure subscription.

How to do it…

This task consists of the following tasks:

  • Implementing network access settings when creating a storage account
  • Implementing virtual network access
  • Implementing a storage IP firewall

Task – implementing network access settings when creating a storage account

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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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