Top 13 best security practices for Azure
summary
Promises thirteen practices but delivers specific claims and tools: 80% of breaches involve privileged credentials, 49% of databases lack encryption, and 25% of orgs suffer crypto‑jacking. Concrete actions: use Azure Key Vault or dedicated HSM, enforce RBAC and managed identities, scan repos with git‑secrets or Spectral Ops, centralize app settings with Azure App Configuration, issue short‑lived SAS tokens not account keys, enable Azure SQL column/cell encryption and threat detection, front APIs with Application Gateway WAF, and run Microsoft Defender for Cloud plus Azure Advisor.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:00Security best practices in Azure
- 9:33Shared responsibility model
- 12:40Managing secrets and access
- 19:51Securing repositories and secrets
- 24:04Application configuration and storage
- 28:24Secure asset management with Storage
- 30:35Protecting Azure SQL databases
- 33:50Securing APIs and endpoints
- 35:40Monitoring with Defender
- 37:04Key takeaways and resources
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