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Published inMar 2023
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Steve Miles
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 JIT VM access

As we continue our defense-in-depth journey, in this section, we will look at another solution to increase your security posture, reduce exposure to attacks, and disrupt and block the path of threat actors.

This recipe looks at limiting access to vulnerable management ports on a VM using the JIT VM feature.

We will cover how to enable JIT access for VMs from within the Virtual machines blade using the Azure portal, requesting access for a JIT-enabled VM, and activity auditing.

Getting ready

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
  • You should sign in with an account that has the Owner role for the Azure subscription
  • Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 2 must be enabled on the subscription used for this exercise; we will step through this process in the following Getting ready tasks if not already enabled
  • An Azure VM; we will walk...
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Published in: Mar 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804617960

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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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