April 21, 2025
Microsoft Azure

Mastering Azure and AI adoption: Cloud platform security in an evolving threat landscape

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Joey Snow takes a practical lap around Azure’s security stack, starting with the real-world mess: nation-state activity like Storm-0940’s SOHO router compromise, botnets, DDoS, and the lingering lessons of ransomware incidents like WannaCry. From there he connects the dots to how Azure is built to stay stubbornly upright—Root-of-Trust hardware like TPM, Azure Security and Resiliency Architecture, and confidential computing—then pivots into what you can do today to harden workloads. He covers Azure’s DDoS protection services, shows how network security perimeter helps lock down internet-exposed PaaS resources (think storage accounts, Azure SQL databases, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault), and demonstrates perimeter protections with Azure Front Door and web application firewall controls that can stop attacks like SQL injection before they get anywhere near your data. Along the way, he calls out newer capabilities like Azure Bastion Developer, Azure Copilot, Azure Confidential Clean Rooms, Azure Integrated HSM, and Azure Advisor—and wraps with Azure Essentials as the one-stop shop for guidance, reference architectures, and best practices (including the Well-Architected Framework).

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