Reflecting updates through fall 2020, this book presents comprehensive Azure Security Center techniques for safeguarding cloud and hybrid environments. Leading Microsoft Azure experts Yuri Diogenes and Tom Janetscheck help you apply Azure Security Center's robust protection, detection, and response capabilities in key operational scenarios. You'll learn how to take full advantage of recently introduced ASC components, feature enhancements, and deployment scenarios, as you address today's latest threat vectors. Diogenes and Janetscheck walk you through securing any Azure workload, and strengthening security in everything from policies and identity to incident response and risk management.

Sharing insider insights, tips, tricks and operational optimizations only available from full-time members of Microsoft's Azure Security Center team, the authors offer new and revised coverage of using Azure Security Center with Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks, Azure SQL, Azure Web sites and apps, logging, auditing, and storage. They cover Cloud Security Posture Management, Microsoft's Cloud Workload Protection Platform, integration with the Azure Sentinel SIEM/SOAR, advanced security automation, deployment at scale, third-party security tool integration, and much more. Whatever your security role or level of experience, you'll learn how to save hours, days, or even weeks by addressing cloud security problems more efficiently and reliably.