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David Okeyode
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David is the EMEA Azure CTO at Palo Alto Networks. Before that, he was an independent consultant helping companies secure their Azure environments through private expert level trainings and assessments. He has authored two books on Azure security - "Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers" and "Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond. He has also authored multiple cloud computing courses for popular platforms like LinkedIn Learning. He holds over 15 cloud certifications and has over a decade of experience in Cybersecurity (consultancy, design, implementation). David is married to a lovely girl who makes the best banana cake in the world. They love travelling the world together!
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Implementing a WAF in Azure

Web and API applications are popular workload types to host in Azure virtual networks. They are also frequently targeted by malicious attacks exploiting well-known vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and code injection. To complement secure coding practices for web application development, a WAF can be deployed at the network perimeter as an additional layer of protection against these types of exploits and vulnerabilities. Azure WAF is not a standalone service in Azure. Instead, it is a capability that can be integrated into two Azure traffic management services – Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door.

Azure Application Gateway is a regional-level application delivery service that can be deployed with a WAF to protect public-facing or internal workloads in an Azure virtual network. It can be deployed into a designated subnet within our Azure virtual networks, and we can apply a WAF policy to it (see Figure 8.57...

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David Okeyode

David is the EMEA Azure CTO at Palo Alto Networks. Before that, he was an independent consultant helping companies secure their Azure environments through private expert level trainings and assessments. He has authored two books on Azure security - "Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers" and "Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond. He has also authored multiple cloud computing courses for popular platforms like LinkedIn Learning. He holds over 15 cloud certifications and has over a decade of experience in Cybersecurity (consultancy, design, implementation). David is married to a lovely girl who makes the best banana cake in the world. They love travelling the world together!
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