Azure Security Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Defending Your Enterprise Environment

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K. OtsAzure Security Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7292-3_4

4. Network Security

Karl Ots¹  

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Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

 

In this chapter, I present the various network controls available to you in Azure environments, their function, and how to apply them. I discuss the best practices on implementing these controls for infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service workloads.

Azure Virtual Networks

In this section, I introduce you to the key concept of Azure networking – the Azure virtual network.

Microsoft Global Network

To provide cloud services, Microsoft operates a physical network of over 160 datacenters globally. The datacenters are ...