As a Program Manager at Microsoft, Bojan Magusic has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies improve their security posture in Azure. Now, in he brings his experience from the cyber security frontline to ensure your Azure cloud-based systems are safe and secure. In you’ll learn vital security skills, including how to: Correctly set up out-of-the-box Azure services to protect your web apps against both common and sophisticated threats, learn to continuously assess your systems for vulnerabilities, and discover cutting-edge operations for security hygiene, monitoring, and DevSecOps. Each stage is made clear and easy to follow with step-by-step instructions, complemented by helpful screenshots and diagrams. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications. Securing cloud-hosted applications requires a mix of tools, techniques, and platform-specific services. The Azure platform provides built-in security tools to keep your systems safe, but proper implementation requires a foundational strategy and tactical guidance. details best practices for configuring and deploying Azure’s native security services—from a zero-trust foundation to defense in depth (DiD). Learn from a Microsoft security insider how to establish a DevSecOps program using Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Realistic scenarios and hands-on examples help demystify tricky security concepts, while clever exercises help reinforce what you’ve learned. For software and security engineers building and securing Azure applications. is a Product Manager with Microsoft on the Security Customer Experience Engineering Team. PART 1 FIRST STEPS 1 About Azure security 2 Securing identities in Azure: The four pillars of identity and Azure Active Directory PART 2 SECURING AZURE RESOURCES 3 Implementing network security in Azure: Firewall, WAF, and DDoS protection 4 Securing compute resources in Azure: Azure Bastion, Kubernetes, and Azure App Service 5 Securing data in Azure Storage accounts: Azure Key Vault 6 Implementing good security hygiene: Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Defender CSPM 7 Security monitoring for Azure resources: Microsoft Defender for Cloud plans PART 3 GOING FURTHER 8 Security operations and response: Microsoft Sentinel 9 Audit and log data: Azure Monitor 10 Importance of governance: Azure Policy and Azure Blueprints 11 DevSecOps: Microsoft Defender for DevOps