Fundamentals of Microsoft Fabric

Chapter 16. Securing Microsoft Fabric

The need to keep data safe and secure is an ongoing concern, and Microsoft Fabric, as a unified data platform, is no exception. In real-world implementations, Microsoft Fabric handles vast volumes of sensitive information across a variety of workloads—data engineering, data warehousing, data science, and real-time intelligence. Without proper security measures—such as data access control, sensitivity labels, and similar—this sensitive data may be exposed to unauthorized access or breach.

In this chapter, we’ll examine various options and features that enable the implementation of robust security policies to protect sensitive information.

Security represents a key aspect of any data analytics solution. Microsoft Fabric provides a wide range of security features to ensure that data is secured at rest and in transit, as well as to enable access and permission control of users and applications.

There are several aspects of security in Microsoft Fabric, so let’s briefly introduce them:

Authentication

Like other Microsoft SaaS solutions, such as Microsoft Office or OneDrive, Fabric relies on Microsoft Entra ID as its cloud-based identity provider. Entra ID enables easy connection from any device and any network.

Network security

In various scenarios, you’ll need to leverage data that resides outside of Microsoft Fabric. There are two directions to consider when configuring network security, inbound and outbound.

Inbound security handles securing ...