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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

You're reading from  Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073301
Pages 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Steve Miles Steve Miles
Profile icon Steve Miles

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Cloud Concepts
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing 3. Chapter 2: Benefits of Cloud Computing 4. Section 2: Core Azure Services
5. Chapter 3: Core Azure Architectural Components 6. Chapter 4: Core Azure Resources 7. Section 3: Core Solutions and Management Tools
8. Chapter 5: Core Azure Solutions 9. Chapter 6: Azure Management Tools 10. Section 4: Security
11. Chapter 7: Azure Security 12. Section 5: Identity, Governance, Privacy, and Compliance
13. Chapter 8: Azure Identity Services 14. Chapter 9: Azure Governance 15. Chapter 10: Azure Privacy and Compliance 16. Section 6: Cost Management and Service-Level Agreements
17. Chapter 11: Azure Cost Planning and Management 18. Chapter 12: Azure Service-Level Agreements 19. Chapter 13: Exam Preparation Practice Tests 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Azure Security Center

Azure Security Center is Microsoft's Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tool; it provides security policy and compliance management, actionable security hardening tasks, and secure scores.

A security posture is an organization's threat protection and response capabilities; this ensures that an organization has the ability for its systems, data, and identities to be recoverable and operational should an attack be successful. Adopting the Azure Security Center best practices and recommendations can help increase an organization's security posture and secure score.

A security posture's goal should be to reduce the exposure to threats, shrinking attack-surface areas and vectors while building resilience to attacks, gaining intelligence, and learning from each attack, as they cannot be prevented or eliminated. It is critical to understand that an attacker only has to be successful once, while you must protect everything, all the time...

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