Security quick links

Learn key points

Quickstart

• Design principles
• Checklist
• Tradeoffs
• Maturity model
• Security patterns
• Azure Well-Architected Review assessment

Training

• Security

video

• Defense in depth security in Azure

Review design principles

Concept

• Plan your security readiness
• Design to protect confidentiality
• Design to protect integrity
• Design to protect availability
• Sustain and evolve your security posture

Create a security foundation

How-To Guide

• Establish a security baseline
• Improve the security of your development lifecycle
• Classify data
• Monitor workload security

Protect workload assets

How-To Guide

• Segment components
• Manage identities and access
• Protect the network
• Use encryption
• Harden resources
• Guard application secrets

Validate and improve security

How-To Guide

• Perform security testing
• Respond to incidents

Explore related resources

Reference

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Azure security recommendations
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud: AWS recommendations
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Google Cloud recommendations
• Azure security documentation
• Microsoft cloud security benchmark