May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
10h 6m
English
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Resource tags and policies
a security topic, I should at least explain what tags are and how they are used to improve security.
Although tagging is more a governance than a security topic, I should at least explain what tags are and how they are used to improve security. Tags are used to organize resources in Azure. They can be added to a Resource group as well as to single resources. They provide up to 15 key value fields to add some information to the object. This could be a billing related field such as department or project or just general information. These tags could also be used as a method for filtering events and applying policies to certain resources.
Examples for tags could be startup-time, shutdown-time, customer, cost-center ...