Securing Azure Resources

Moving towards cloud is inevitable, however security concern and transparency issues will always push behind the implementation of the cloud in the enterprise level. Small medium business and start-up's are way forwards on exploring the opportunities provided by the cloud.

Microsoft have heavily invested on securing Azure and gaining the trust of customers. In-fact, it had implemented multi-layer protection mechanism to meet the compliance requirements with national, regional, and industry specific requirement governing the collection and usages of personal data. Those layers are as follow where every layered security measured has been implemented.
  • Network Security
  • Database Security
  • Storage Security 
  • Compute Security 
  • Operational Security 
  • Security Management and Monitoring 
  • Service Fabrics Security 
  • Identity Management
  • IoT Security 
  • Azure Encryption 

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  1. Unknown20 July 2018 at 07:49

    And if i'm using VPN with that, will it still work?

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  2. Unknown17 September 2018 at 03:14


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