Microsoft Azure Security Center, 3rd Edition

Chapter 4

Strengthening your security posture

During the last couple of years, ransomware outbreaks, such as WannaCry and Petya, reinforced both the importance of having a vulnerability-management system and the fact that many computers are not fully updated and do not use the most secure configuration. The COVID-19 pandemic even amplified these observations, as you already learned in Chapter 1, “The threat landscape,” and it presented new challenges. What all these challenges and observations have in common is the fact that security hygiene today is one of the most important topics when it comes to protecting IT resources. A security assessment is critical to identifying the current security state of your assets and what you need to do to improve ...