Best practices for securing Azure services¶
Microsoft Azure’s security model also follows shared responsibility, requiring customers to secure identities, data, and workloads.
Azure active directory (AAD)
Enforce conditional access (MFA, device compliance).
Audit privileged roles with PIM (Privileged Identity Management).
Network security
Use NSGs and Azure Firewall to filter traffic.
Private Endpoints for PaaS services (avoid public exposure).
Monitoring & threat detection
Enable Azure Sentinel (SIEM) and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Monitor suspicious activity with Azure AD Identity Protection.
Data encryption
Azure Disk Encryption for VMs, TDE for SQL databases.
Azure Key Vault for secrets management.
Governance
Apply Azure Policy to enforce compliance (e.g., “No storage accounts with public access”).