By Daniel Greenwood, Senior Azure Cloud Consultant
As an increasing number of organisations move their analytics and data platforms to Azure, they face the tricky challenge of maintaining their data security.
The good news is, through Microsoft’s cloud computing offerings, businesses can leverage advanced security solutions, implement strict access controls and use real-time threat detection and response systems to safeguard their data and operations in the cloud.
Here are four steps you can take to strengthen your security posture:
Azure Entra ID is an Azure-native Identity management platform, crucial for setting up secure and regulated access for users and groups. It offers effective authentication and authorisation features, which ensure that only authorised individuals gain access to designated resources.
Security Advantage: Enhanced security through multi-factor authentication and conditional access policies leads to a secure environment that prioritises the protection of data and privileged user identity.
Azure offers a variety of flexible networking tools and services that are impressively secure. Whether you’re establishing secure connections through Azure VPN or creating isolated networks with Azure Virtual Network, the platform meets all kinds of business needs while maintaining high-security standards.
Security Advantage: Azure’s versatile networking tools ensure effective protection for diverse application workloads.
Azure’s compliance solutions navigate the complexities of global regulations, offering tools and guidance to satisfy critical standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.
Security Advantage: This streamlined approach reduces the effort and risk in compliance management for all the key international regulations.
Protecting workloads in Azure maintains the all-important reliability of business operations. Azure offers a suite of tools through Defender for Cloud, to protect against threats and respond to security incidents across the different Azure resources:
Security Advantage: Proactive threat detection and vulnerability recommendations, ensuring business continuity and safeguarding critical data and applications.
As a managed service specialising in Azure environments, Katalyze Data is perfectly placed to help businesses overcome issues with their Azure security landscape.
Our expertise covers everything from enhancing user and group management with Azure Entra ID to deploying advanced security solutions like Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and Conditional Access.
We specialise in network security, using NSG rules and Azure Firewall for resilience and compliance. Our experience with Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud allows us to automate compliance and shield your applications and data from advanced threats.
Keen to enhance your Azure security? Would you benefit from an independent review of your organisation’s security posture?
Contact the Katalyze Data team for a chat about how best to leverage Azure security solutions for your organisation.