Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform comprised of infrastructure and application services, with integrated data services and advanced analytics, and developer tools and services, hosted within Microsoft’s public cloud data centers. Customers use Azure for many different capacities and scenarios, from basic compute, networking, and storage, to mobile and web app services, to full cloud scenarios like Internet of Things, and can be used with open-source technologies, and deployed as hybrid cloud or hosted within a customer’s datacenter. Azure provides cloud technology as building blocks to help companies save costs, innovate quickly, and manage systems proactively. When you build on, or migrate IT assets to a cloud provider, you are relying on that organization’s abilities to protect your applications and data with the services and the controls they provide to manage the security of your cloud-based assets.
Microsoft Azure is the only cloud computing provider that offers a secure, consistent application platform and infrastructure-as-a-service for teams to work within their different cloud skillsets and levels of project complexity, with integrated data services and analytics that uncover intelligence from data wherever it exists, across both Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms, open frameworks and tools, providing choice for integrating cloud with on-premises as well deploying Azure cloud services within on-premises datacenters. As part of the Microsoft Trusted Cloud, customers rely on Azure for industry-leading security, reliability, compliance, privacy, and the vast network of people, partners, and processes to support organizations in the cloud.
- Manage and control identity and user access Azure helps you protect business and personal information by enabling you to manage user identities and credentials and control access.
- Secure resource access Access control in Azure starts from a billing perspective. The owner of an Azure account, accessed by visiting the Azure portal, is the Account Administrator (AA). Subscriptions are a container for billing, but they also act as a security boundary: each subscription has a Service Administrator (SA) who can add, remove, and modify Azure resources in that subscription by using the Azure portal.
- Secure your application While Azure is responsible for securing the infrastructure and platform that your application runs on, it is your responsibility to secure your application itself. In other words, you need to develop, deploy, and manage your application code and content in a secure way. Without this, your application code or content can still be vulnerable to threats.
- Secure your network Microsoft Azure includes a robust networking infrastructure to support your application and service connectivity requirements. Network connectivity is possible between resources located in Azure, between on-premises and Azure hosted resources, and to and from the Internet and Azure.
If you want to learn more about security services in Azure, please check out Azure security technical capabilities. These services can help you protect data, resources, and applications in the cloud and meet the security needs of your business. Thank you for your understanding and support.
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