Microsoft Azure Security
Cloud security is an ever-expanding landscape, and organisations must meet this challenge by ensuring appropriate security controls are applied to resources at the point of deployment.
With this in mind, understanding how to secure resources correctly and manage them moving forward is key.
- Manage identity and control access
- Secure your network
- Safeguard data
- Key, secrets and certificate management
- Get centralised visibility and prevent attacks
Microsoft offers high-level security in Azure through its physical data centres, infrastructure, and operations. Benefit from a cloud that is designed with custom hardware, has security features embedded in the hardware and firmware components, and extra defences against attacks, such as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Use the skills and services of a team of over 3,500 global cyber security specialists that collaborate to help protect your business assets and data in Azure.
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What is Microsoft Azure Security?
Microsoft Azure Security is a suite of tools, services, and features provided by Microsoft Azure to protect cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and data. It encompasses a wide range of security measures designed to address various aspects of cloud security, ensuring that Azure users can maintain robust protection against evolving threats.
See below for key solutions and services with the Microsoft Azure Security portfolio:
Ensure protection for hybrid and multicloud environments.
- Gain integrated insights into your cloud security status across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and hybrid clouds, so you can focus on the most urgent risks
- With integrated extended detection and response (XDR) protection, you can help stop, identify, and react to threats across workloads in multiple clouds
- Enhance security for application development with unified views across multiple pipelines and clouds in DevOps
Create web front ends in Azure that are secure, scalable, and highly available.
- Application delivery controller as a service that is scalable, highly available, and managed by the platform
- Multi-instance deployments with 99.95% uptime service-level agreement
- Flexible layer seven load-balancing solution
- Built-in web application firewall
- Centralised SSL policy and SSL offload
- Cookie-based session affinity support
- Support for websites in public, private, or hybrid mode
- Azure APIs for management
Connect directories on your premises and allow one-time sign-in.
- Ensure the security of your resources and data with robust authentication and access policies that adapt to different levels of risk without affecting user experience
- Enable quick and smooth sign-in across your multi-cloud environment to maintain your users’ efficiency, lower password management time, and boost productivity
- Manage all your identities and access to all your applications from a single place, whether they’re in the cloud or on-premises, to enhance visibility and control
Guard your Azure resources against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
- Adaptive threat intelligence automatically identifies and blocks the most sophisticated DDoS attacks
- Huge DDoS mitigation capacity cleans traffic at the network edge before it affects applications
- Complete visibility into DDoS attacks with useful insights for fast response
- Multi-layered DDoS protection that is easy to deploy instantly helps protect all resources on virtual networks when enabled
Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets.
- Enhance protection and management of keys and passwords
- Use HSMs validated by FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and Level 3
- Generate and upload encryption keys in minutes
- Lower latency with cloud scale and global redundancy
- Applications cannot access keys directly
- Streamline and automate tasks for SSL/ TLS certificates
Enhance the security of your confidential data—no matter where or when.
- Use built-in labels and information protection in Microsoft 365 apps and services and other Microsoft services
- Classify correctly with machine learning-based trainable classifiers, exact data match, and more
- Set up and manage policies and see analytics across on-premises file shares, Microsoft 365 apps and services, and desktop and mobile devices in one place.
- Apply consistent protection to popular non-Microsoft apps and services with an SDK
Why Phoenix for Microsoft Azure Security
Phoenix is an Azure Expert MSP and Microsoft Solutions Partner for Microsoft Cloud. These accreditations confirm our status as a highly trusted and strategic Microsoft partner with the expertise, industry recognition, and commitment to innovation that sets us apart as the trusted partner for organisations that need reliable and robust Microsoft security solutions. We hold five Microsoft Specialisations in security, (11 Microsoft Specialisations in total) demonstrating our abilities and accomplishments in supporting organisations to transform, protect, and reach their goals.
- Modernise endpoint
- Cloud security
- Identity and access management
- Information protection and governance
- Threat protection
Phoenix provides reliable security solutions and managed services, empowering you to handle risks effectively and defend your organisation from cyber threats.
A Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) is a highly accredited and independently verified partner recognised by Microsoft for their proven expertise and experience in delivering comprehensive cloud solutions on the Azure platform. Achieving this designation indicates that the MSP has met stringent requirements and demonstrated excellence in various areas, including:
Technical expertise:
- Advanced proficiency in deploying, managing, and optimising Azure environments.
- Skilled in offering a range of services from cloud migration to security management.
Customer success:
- Proven track record of successful customer engagements and satisfaction.
- Ability to design and implement tailored solutions that meet specific business needs.
Service delivery:
- Commitment to high standards of service delivery, including 24/ 7 support and proactive monitoring.
- Use of best practices and continuous improvement methodologies to enhance service quality.
Comprehensive assessment:
- Undergo a rigorous third-party audit to validate their capabilities and performance.
- Continuously meet ongoing compliance and performance requirements set by Microsoft.
Being an Azure Expert MSP signifies a Phoenix’s dedication to providing top-tier cloud services and ensures that our customers receive the highest level of support and expertise in their Azure journey.
Phoenix is a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) – a global network of cyber security technology providers who have integrated their solutions with Microsoft’s security products to offer better protection, detection, and response capabilities for mutual customers. Microsoft established MISA to bring together a diverse community of leading security vendors, such as independent software vendors (ISVs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), system integrators (SIs), and cyber security consulting firms.
Phoenix is part of the Microsoft Security and Management Elite Partner Program. This is an invite-only programme for top Microsoft partners with a high-level of skill that provide customised solutions and services in security, management, identity, and compliance. The exclusive programme, run by Microsoft’s Global Engineering Team, allows Phoenix to get the latest technical information across the product range, the opportunity to participate in private previews, and direct links to key engineering resources.
Enhance your security capabilities with Microsoft Azure
We have a range of Microsoft Azure Security workshops and assessments to support you, whether you’re at the start of your cloud security journey, looking to apply further security controls and systems, or reevaluate your current security position and providers.
Microsoft Azure Security Benchmark Assessment
Addressing the responsibilities of the customer to secure resources hosted within the Microsoft Cloud, the Microsoft Azure Security Benchmark Assessment focuses on the best practice guidance available from industry bodies such as Microsoft and CIS alongside the security pillar of the Microsoft Well Architected Framework.
It aims to investigate the current security posture of your Microsoft Cloud estate and the security solutions and procedures in place to manage it to ensure the best security posture.
What’s included?
Phoenix will work closely with you to discuss and fully assess the current security posture of deployed Microsoft security solutions.
Through technical exploration sessions with your key stakeholders and security teams, we aim to generate a report that gives insight into areas where security can be improved and provide actionable recommendations based on best practices.
Microsoft Azure Network Security Workshop
Using well-defined routing, network security controls, and security devices, you will protect your cloud assets from unwanted access while maintaining the lines of communication needed for your users.
Adding this layer of defence to your organisation’s cloud-based resources aids in improving the operational effectiveness of your cloud data centre.
What’s included?
- A review and redesign of your Microsoft Cloud network security based on the zero-trust model
- Technical planning sessions to design a network control model to can incorporate new network security devices into your existing cloud environment
- Implementation of these security mechanisms to reduce the attack surface of your cloud resources using traffic analytics and packet flow monitoring
As an outcome from this workshop, you can expect to have a new Azure network security strategy designed and documented ready for implementation by your engineers or Phoenix resources.
Microsoft Azure Security frequently asked questions
Microsoft Azure Security is a security management and advanced threat protection solution for cloud workloads that span hybrid cloud environments. It is built for the cloud and offers smart security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise.
Protecting the privacy of your most critical information is a key priority for Microsoft Azure Security. With a multi-layered security strategy, organisations can benefit from the features of distant physical data centres without risking the exposure of their sensitive data.
An Azure Network Security Group is a tool that allows you to manage the network traffic among Azure resources in an Azure virtual network. A network security group has security rules that enable or disable inbound network traffic to, or outbound network traffic from, different types of Azure resources.
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