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_6

6. Workload Protection – Platform as a Service

Karl Ots¹  

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Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

 

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

Azure App Service

Azure App Service is a fully managed service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and serverless applications. With App Service, Microsoft is responsible for maintaining the underlying virtual machine infrastructure, as ...