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8. Workload Protection – IaaS

Karl Ots1  
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Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
 

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

While you can certainly replicate your on-premises datacenters into Azure, the cloud’s distributed and software-defined nature means that your experience will be different, no matter your level of execution. To mitigate the differences ...

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