AzCopy Security Mechanism

Question

Hello Experts,

I couldn’t find much information related to AzCopy security best practices, particularly around encryption in transit and at rest, TLS certification, secure protocols, etc. I would greatly appreciate it if you could share or direct me to Azure documentation that covers AzCopy's security mechanisms.

Answer 1

Hi @Sunil Menon ,

As far as I know:

AzCopy doesn't take care of data encryption at rest. The data encryption at rest is done by the Azure Storage Account.

Please take a look here: Azure Storage encryption for data at rest

AzCopy is using HTPPS with the TLS version configured on the Azure Storage Account for data encryption in transit.

Please take a look here: TLS encryption in Azure and here Azure Storage transactions and another one Enforce a minimum required version of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for requests to a storage account

Hope this answer fits your question.

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Answer 2

Hello Sunil Menon,

Greetings! Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform.

Adding to above information, AzCopy is a command-line utility for transferring data to and from Azure Storage incorporates several security mechanisms to ensure data protection,

Data at Rest: Azure provides encryption for data at rest by default. For highly sensitive data, you have options to implement additional encryption at rest on all Azure resources where available. Azure manages your encryption keys by default, but Azure also provides options to manage your own keys (customer-managed keys) for certain Azure services to meet regulatory requirements.

Data at transit: By default, Azure provides encryption for data in transit between Azure data centers.

For more details, refer to Azure security baseline for Azure Data Factory.

This article provides an overview of how encryption is used in Microsoft Azure. It covers the major areas of encryption, including encryption at rest, encryption in flight, and key management with Azure Key Vault. Each section includes links to more detailed information.

This article describes best practices for data security and encryption.

AzCopy supports TLS (Transport Layer Security) to secure data in transit. This ensures that data is encrypted and secure from interception during transfer.

Hope this answer helps! Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.      

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