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_5

5. Workload Protection – Data

Karl Ots¹  

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Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

 

In this chapter, we discuss hardening of data workloads. After reading this chapter, you will be able select and implement appropriate controls for securing data workloads as part of your organization’s security policy framework.

I have selected Azure Key Vault, Azure Blob storage, and Azure SQL database as the services covered in this chapter. There are, of course, a plethora of other Azure services that support your data workloads available, such as Azure CosmosDB, Databricks, and HDInsights. Based on my experience ...