Securing Azure VM - Checklist
Organization lean towards cloud is growing. Many enterprises are planning to fully deploy their infrastructure to the cloud. As an initial step they are embracing Software as a Service and extending their workload to the cloud, making it as a secondary site for compute and storage resources. Creating resources in Azure is simple, will finishes within few clicks, however if we missed few steps or rule of thumbs on provisioning resources, it might leave a loop hole which could be easily exploited. Below is the checklist for consideration to ensure that you have securely deployed your resources (VM) to Azure Cloud. Network Setup Is your network Isolated and breakdown into different zones? Do you need to stop different zones/subnets communicating with each other? Is Network Security Group applied? Can you justify the need of PublicIP? How you are planning to RDP VM? Did you have list of endpoints of Azure VM to be provisioned? Do you need all those endpoints? How secur