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Secure your cloud applications in Azure

Microsoft via Microsoft Learn

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Overview

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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