Secure Your Cloud with Azure Security Center
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Description
The security of your cloud environment should always a leading concern. However, it can be difficult to stay on top of all the resources and changes taking place in your environment. Azure provides Security Center to help lighten the burden of securing your cloud environment. Take advantage of automatic security audits and recommendations to secure your cloud with Azure Security Center in this Lab. You will mitigate security risks identified by Security Center in a pre-created cloud environment.
Lab Objectives
Upon completion of this Lab you will be able to:
- Use Security Center to identify network, compute, storage, and application security risks in your Azure environment
- Follow Security Center's recommendations to mitigate risks
- Resolve several common security issues
Lab Prerequisites
You should be familiar with:
- Basic Azure resources, such as Subnets, Virtual Machines, and Network Security Groups
Lab Environment
Before completing the Lab instructions, the environment will look as follows:
After completing the Lab instructions, the environment should look similar to:
Updates
July 1st, 2020: Added additional instructions to allow validation checks to pass even if Security Center has yet to detect the issues being resolved in the final lab step. Increased time limit as well.
May 22nd, 2020: Updated screenshots to reflect the latest Security Center experience. Also increased time limit to allow more time to wait for Security Center to scan the lab environment (it can take up to 30 minutes)
May 13th, 2020: Updated screenshots and added additional warnings about inherent Security Center delays that can make the list of recommendations temporarily appear empty
April 12th, 2020: Added validation checks to check the work you perform in the lab
April 12th, 2020: Updated to reflect the latest Security Center experience and capabilities
November 11th, 2018: Updated the text and screenshots to match the latest Security Center experience
September 7th, 2018: Updated text and images to match the latest Azure experience
Logan has been involved in software development and research since 2007 and has been in the cloud since 2012. He is an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), and Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA). He earned his Ph.D. studying design automation and enjoys all things tech.