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Microsoft Azure Security Center, 2nd Edition
- By Yuri Diogenes, Tom Shinder
- Published Oct 5, 2019 by Microsoft Press. Part of the IT Best Practices - Microsoft Press series.
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- Sorry, this book is no longer in print.
About
Features
- Covers new capabilities in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP)
- Details new deployment scenarios for Azure Security Center
- Highlights exactly how you do things in Azure Security Center by providing configuration details
- Learn to interpret the findings in a number of security scenarios
- Examples of step by step processes to use Azure Security Center "right out of the box" to get expert level security applied to deployments
- Written by security experts with over a half century of security experience between them, who are Microsoft FTEs working on the Azure Security Center team, and who have published more than 30 Microsoft security books between them
Description
- Copyright 2020
- Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 224
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-575203-5
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-575203-6
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Reflecting updates through mid-2019, this book presents comprehensive Azure Security Center techniques for safeguarding cloud and hybrid environments. Leading Microsoft security and cloud experts Yuri Diogenes and Dr. Thomas Shinder help you apply Azure Security Center’s robust protection, detection, and response capabilities in key operational scenarios. You’ll walk through securing any Azure workload, and optimizing key facets of modern security, from policies and identity to incident response and risk management. Brand-new coverage includes single-click remediation, IoT, improved container security, Azure Sentinel, and more. Whatever your security role, you’ll learn how to save hours, days, or even weeks by solving problems in the most efficient and reliable ways possible.
Two of Microsoft’s leading cloud security experts show how to:
- Implement a comprehensive new security paradigm designed specifically for cloud and hybrid environments
- Gain visibility and control to secure all key workloads
- Incorporate Azure Security Center into your security operations center, and integrate Azure AD Identity Protection Center and third-party solutions
- Adapt Azure Security Center’s built-in policies and definitions for your organization
- Perform security assessments, and implement Azure Security Center recommendations fast with single-click remediation
- Use incident response features to detect, investigate, and address threats
- Create high-fidelity fusion alerts to focus attention on your most urgent security issues
- Implement application whitelisting and just-in-time VM access
- Assess IoT device security with the Azure IoT Hub managed service
- Monitor user behavior and access, and investigate compromised or misused credentials
- Integrate Microsoft’s new Azure Sentinel Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform
- Customize and perform operating system security baseline assessments
About This Book
- For cloud architects, designers, implementers, operations professionals, and security specialists working in Microsoft Azure cloud or hybrid environments
- For all IT professionals and decision-makers concerned with the security of Azure environments
Sample Content
Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1 The threat landscape
- CHAPTER 2 Introduction to Azure Security Center
- CHAPTER 3 Policy management
- CHAPTER 4 Strengthen your security posture
- CHAPTER 5 Accessing security alerts from API
- CHAPTER 6 Threat detection
- CHAPTER 7 Protect your IoT solution with Azure Security Center
- CHAPTER 8 SIEM integration
- CHAPTER 9 Integration with other Microsoft solutions
- CHAPTER 10 Accessing Security Center Alerts from API
- APPENDIX A Managing Security Center at Scale