Security
With Azure security at your disposal, you can strengthen your cloud workload security
using a variety of security services built-into the cloud. You can protect all your data,
your applications, and your infrastructure very quickly using Azure security services.
Every service provides you with security intelligence not found anywhere else to help
you identify ever-evolving threats, providing you with the tools and intelligence needed
to respond fast and minimize damage.
With Azure security, you can quickly implement a many-layered security strategy across
data, identity, hosts and your networks. Security management is unified and advanced
threat protection enabled across your hybrid cloud environment.
Azure Security Categories:
- Security Center – unify management of your security and ensure that
advanced threat protection is enabled for both in-cloud and on-site workloads - Key Vault – keep your cryptographic keys safe, along with other secrets in use
by cloud services and apps - Azure DDoS Protection – keeps all Azure resources safe from DDoS threats
- Azure Information Protection – Helps to control and secure your
documents, emails, and sensitive data that is shared externally - Application Gateway – keeps your applications protected from common
exploits and vulnerabilities on the web using a built-in firewall for web apps - Azure Active Directory – ensure synchronization of all on-premise directories
and enable single sign-on - Azure Active Directory Domain Services – joins your VMs to a domain
without the need for domain controllers - Security Center – ensure management of security is unified and threat
protection is enabled across all hybrid cloud workloads - VPN Gateway – ensure cross-premise secure connectivity
- Azure Advanced Threat Protection – detection and investigation of
advanced attacks, both in-cloud and on-site