5 Securing data in Azure Storage accounts: Azure Key Vault

This chapter covers

  • Securing storage accounts
  • Managing storage encryption
  • Securing Azure Key Vault

In 2017, The Economist published an article (http://mng.bz/6Dzp) that asserted that data, not oil, had risen to become the world’s most valuable resource over the previous decade. This notion that data has become the new oil highlights data’s importance to businesses. Similar to how oil is used to power the vehicles that you see on roads (unless you live surrounded by electric vehicles), data is used to power better decision-making in organizations.

If data is indeed the new oil, you can consider Azure as the pipeline through which that new oil flows. As you can imagine, securing that ...

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