Azure Network Security: Implementing Effective Perimeter Defense
Introduction
Azure offers a wide range of services, including compute, storage, networking, and databases. As with any cloud deployment, it is important to implement effective security measures to protect your data and applications. Azure offers a number of features and services that can help you to implement an effective perimeter defense.
Azure Firewall
Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based firewall that provides comprehensive protection for your Azure resources. It can be used to control inbound and outbound traffic, and to prevent common network attacks such as DDoS and malware.
Azure DDoS Protection Standard
Azure DDoS Protection Standard is a free service that provides basic protection against DDoS attacks. It can be used to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks that target your Azure resources.
Azure DDoS Protection Premium
Azure DDoS Protection Premium is a paid service that provides more comprehensive protection against DDoS attacks. It can be used to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks that target your Azure resources, as well as to provide additional features such as traffic scrubbing and geo-redundancy.
Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Azure Web Application Firewall is a cloud-based web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web attacks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and denial of service.
Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs)
Network Virtual Appliances are third-party firewalls that can be deployed in Azure. NVAs can be used to provide additional security features and functionality beyond what is available with Azure Firewall.
Network Security Groups (NSGs)
Network security groups are used to control network traffic within your Azure virtual networks. NSGs can be used to allow or deny traffic based on source and destination IP addresses, ports, and protocols.
Conclusion
With these features and services, you can effectively secure your Azure network. This will help to protect your Azure resources from common network attacks and improve your Azure environment’s security.
