Microsoft Azure Security Center

This book presents comprehensive Azure Security Center etechniques for safeguarding cloud and hybrid environments. Leading Microsoft security and cloud experts Yuri Diogenes and Dr. Thomas Shinder show how to apply Azure Security Centre’s full spectrum of features and capabilities to address protection, detection, and response in key operational scenarios. You’ll learn how to secure any Azure workload, and optimise virtually all facets of modern security, from policies and identity to incident response and risk management. Whatever your role in Azure security, you’ll learn how to save hours, days, or even weeks by solving problems in most efficient, reliable ways possible. Two of Microsoft’s leading cloud security experts show how to: Assess the impact of cloud and hybrid environments on security, compliance, operations, data protection, and risk management Master a new security paradigm for a world without traditional perimeters Gain visibility and control to secure compute, network, storage, and application workloads Incorporate Azure Security Centre into your security operations centre Integrate Azure Security Centre with Azure AD Identity Protection Centre and third-party solutions Adapt Azure Security Centre’s built-in policies and definitions for your organisation Perform security assessments and implement Azure Security Centre recommendations 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 Monitor user behaviour and access, and investigate compromised or misused credentials Customise and perform operating system security baseline assessments

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Threat Landscape Chapter 2: Azure Security Center Chapter 3: Policy Management Chapter 4: Mitigating Security Issues Chapter 5: Using Security Center for Incident Response Chapter 6: Advanced Cloud Defense Chapter 7: Azure Monitor Chapter 8: Monitoring Identity and Access Chapter 9: Using Threat Intelligence to Identity Security Issues Appendix A: Using multiple workspaces in Security Center Appendix B: Customizing your Operating System Security Baseline Assessment

About the Author :
Yuri Diogenes With a master of science in cybersecurity intelligence and forensics investigation (UTICA College), Yuri is senior program manager in Microsoft CxP Security Team, where he primarily helps customers onboard and incorporate Azure Security Center as part of their security operations/incident response. Yuri has been working for Microsoft since 2006 in different positions, including five years as senior support escalation engineer in CSS Forefront Edge Team, and from 2011 to 2017 in the content development team, where he also helped create the Azure Security Center content experience since its launch in 2016. Yuri has published a total of 20 books, mostly around information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri also holds an MBA and many IT/Security industry certifications, such as CISSP, ECND, ECEH, ECSA, ECHFI, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Cloud Essentials Certified, Mobility+, Network+, CASP, CyberSec First Responder, MCSE, and MCTS. You can follow Yuri on Twitter at @yuridiogenes or read his articles at his personal blog: http: //aka.ms/yuridio. Dr. Thomas Shinder is a cloud security program manager in Azure Security Engineering. He is responsible for security technical content and education, customer engagements, and competitive analysis. He has presented at many of the largest security industry conferences on topics related to both on-premises and public cloud security and architecture. Tom earned a bachelor's degree in neuropsychobiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MD from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He was a practicing neurologist prior to changing careers in the 1990s. He has written over 30 books on OS, network, and cloud security, including Microsoft Azure Security Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure Security Center (IT Best Practices series, Microsoft Press). Tom can be found hugging his Azure console when he's not busy hiding his keys and secrets in Azure Key Vault.