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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Azure VM security

Let's look at some of the security best practices to secure your Azure VMs:

  • Antimalware and virus security: It is a security best practice to ensure that your VMs are protected from any malware/virus by having an updated antimalware solution. Azure provides a native solution called Microsoft Antimalware, however, there are also various third-party antimalware solutions available such as Trend Micro, Symantec, and so on.
  • Encryption: It is recommended that you encrypt your VM disks using Key Vault. You can use the same BitLocker for Windows and dm-crypt for Linux machines. 
  • Access and authorization: Microsoft provides various roles (Reader, VM contributor, and so on) to enable access to VMs in Azure. It is recommended that ...
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