Introduction

Welcome to Azure Security Center, a book that was developed together with the Azure Security Center product group to provide in-depth information about Azure Security Center and to demonstrate best practices based on real-life experience with the product in different environments.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the wide array of security features and capabilities available in Azure Security Center. After being introduced to all of these security options, you will dig in to see how they can be used in a number of operational security scenarios so that you can get the most out of the protect, detect, and respond skills provided only by Azure Security Center.

Who is this book for?

Azure Security Center is for anyone interested in Azure security: security administrators, support professionals, developers, and engineers.

Azure Security Center is designed to be useful for the entire spectrum of Azure users. You can have no security experience, some experience, or be a security expert and will get value from Azure Security Center. This book provides introductory, intermediate and advanced coverage on a large swath of security issues that are addressed by Azure Security Center.

The approach is a unique mix of didactic, narrative, and experiential instruction. Didactic covers the core introductions to the services. The narrative leverages what you already understand and we bridge your current understanding with new concepts introduced in the book.

Finally, the experience component is presented in two ways— we share our experiences with Azure Security Center and how to get the most out of it by showing in a stepwise, guided fashion how to configure Azure Security Center to gain all the benefits it has to offer,

In this book you will learn:

How to secure your Azure assets no matter what your level of security experience

How to save hours, days and weeks of time by removing the trial and error

How to protect, detect, and respond to security threats better than ever by knowing how to get the most out of Azure Security Center

System requirements

Anyone with access to a Microsoft Azure subscription can use the information in this book.

Errata, updates & book support

We’ve made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this book and its companion content. You can access updates to this book—in the form of a list of submitted errata and their related corrections—at:

https://aka.ms/AzureSecurityCenter/errata

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