Azure Cloud Security for Absolute Beginners: Enabling Cloud Infrastructure Security with Multi-Level Security Options

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P. HerathAzure Cloud Security for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7860-4_8

8. Azure Virtual Machine Security

Pushpa Herath¹  

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Hanguranketha, Sri Lanka

 

Many systems use virtual machines-based solution architectures in the cloud to deploy the application workloads. Because Azure provides several ready-made virtual machine templates, such solutions in Azure are widely popular. However, deploying your application workloads into virtual machines requires you to manage security aspects by yourself to a greater extent than using PaaS services.

You need to protect your machines from viruses and malware, encrypt your sensitive data, create secure ...