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Microsoft

Secure your cloud applications in Azure

Microsoft via Microsoft Learn

Overview

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  • Module 1: Discover the tools that Azure provides to help you design a secure environment throughout your infrastructure, data, network, and applications.
  • By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

    • Develop a defense-in-depth approach to securing your architecture
    • Choose the technologies to secure your Azure infrastructure
    • Develop a strategy for secure identity management
  • Module 2: Learn about the Site Reliability Engineering approach to the challenge of assuring reliability and gain a better understanding of why it matters.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Use Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    • Verify your application's inputs and outputs
    • Store your secrets into Key Vault
    • Ensure you are using the latest version of your framework, and its security features
    • Validate that your program dependencies and libraries are safe to use
  • Module 3: Create security baselines
  • In this module, you will:

    • Learn Azure platform security baselines and how they were created
    • Create and validate a security baseline for the most commonly used Azure services
  • Module 4: Learn how to create an Azure Key Vault to store secret values and how to enable secure access to the vault.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Explore what types of information can be stored in Azure Key Vault
    • Create an Azure Key Vault and use it to store secret configuration values
    • Enable secure access to the vault from an Azure App Service web app with managed identities for Azure resources
    • Implement a web application that retrieves secrets from the vault
  • Module 5: Discover how to protect your APIs from unauthorized use with API keys and client certificate authentication.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Use API keys to secure your APIs
    • Use client certificate authentication to secure your APIs

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Security
    • Introduction
    • Defense in depth
    • Identity management
    • Infrastructure protection
    • Encryption
    • Network security
    • Application security
    • Summary
  • Module 2: Top 5 security items to consider before pushing to production
    • Introduction
    • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    • Inputs and Outputs
    • Secrets in Key Vault
    • Framework Updates
    • Safe Dependencies
    • Conclusion
  • Module 3: Create security baselines
    • Create a platform security baseline
    • Understand the Azure platform security baseline
    • Create an Identity & Access Management (IAM) baseline
    • Create a Microsoft Defender for Cloud baseline
    • Create an Azure storage accounts baseline
    • Create an Azure SQL Database baseline
    • Create a logging and monitoring baseline
    • Create a Networking baseline
    • Create an Azure VM baseline
    • Other baseline security considerations
    • Summary
  • Module 4: Manage secrets in your server apps with Azure Key Vault
    • Introduction
    • What is Azure Key Vault?
    • Exercise - Create a Key Vault and store secrets
    • Vault authentication with managed identities for Azure resources
    • Exercise - Access secrets stored in Azure Key Vault
    • Exercise - Configure, deploy, and run your app in Azure
    • Summary
  • Module 5: Control authentication for your APIs with Azure API Management
    • Introduction
    • What is API Management?
    • Create subscriptions in Azure API Management
    • Exercise - Create subscriptions in Azure API Management
    • Use client certificates to secure access to an API
    • Exercise - Use client certificates to secure access to an API
    • Summary

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