Module3ksjdfbsdkfkasjdfbjkendfksdmnfckajs.pptx
- 1. Module 3
- 3. Access Azure Portal: Log in to the Azure portal. Manage Subscriptions: Navigate to Cost Management + Billing. Click on Subscriptions. Review and manage subscription details, including adding or removing subscriptions.
- 4. Definition and Purpose: ● Azure Blueprints allow organizations to define a repeatable set of governance standards and deployment practices. ● They ensure compliance by packaging policies, role assignments, and resource configurations. Implementing Azure Blueprints
- 5. ● Pre-Built and Custom Blueprints: Azure provides pre-built blueprints for common scenarios (e.g., regulatory compliance), and organizations can create custom blueprints tailored to their specific needs. ● Application Across Subscriptions: Blueprints can be applied to multiple subscriptions, enabling consistent governance and compliance across an entire organization’s Azure environment. Implementing Azure Blueprints
- 6. ● Continuous Assessment: Azure Security Center continuously assesses your environment for security risks and compliance violations, providing actionable insights and recommendations. ● Regulatory Compliance Dashboard: This feature provides a unified view of compliance across various standards like GDPR, ISO 27001, and NIST, helping organizations track their compliance status. ● Automated Remediation: Security Center can automate the remediation of certain security issues, helping maintain compliance without manual intervention. Monitoring Compliance with Azure Security Center
- 7. ● Resource Tagging Overview: Tags are key-value pairs that provide metadata for Azure resources. They are crucial for organizing resources and applying governance policies. ● Enforcing Tagging Standards: Azure Policy can enforce tagging rules, ensuring that all resources have the required tags, which helps in cost management and compliance reporting. ● Using Tags for Billing and Access Control: Tags help in tracking costs by department or project, and they can be used to apply role-based access control (RBAC) at a granular level. Managing Resource Tags for Governance
- 8. ● Hierarchical Organization: Azure Management Groups allow you to organize subscriptions into a hierarchy, making it easier to manage policies and compliance across multiple subscriptions. ● Centralized Policy Management: Apply governance policies and RBAC settings at the management group level, which cascades down to all associated subscriptions, ensuring uniform governance. ● Scalability for Large Enterprises: Management groups are particularly useful for large enterprises with multiple Azure subscriptions, as they simplify administration and compliance management at scale. Setting Up Azure Management Groups
- 10. Creating and Managing Azure Subscriptions ● Subscription Types: Azure offers various subscription types like Pay-As-You-Go, Enterprise Agreement, and Dev/Test. Each is designed to meet different organizational needs and budgets. ● Subscription Limits and Quotas: Understand the resource limits and quotas for each subscription type, which are critical for planning and scaling your Azure environment. ● Managing Costs and Billing: Utilize Azure Cost Management tools within each subscription to monitor usage, set budgets, and control spending, ensuring financial accountability.
- 11. Linking Subscriptions with Management Groups ● Why Link Subscriptions?: Linking subscriptions to management groups allows centralized management of policies, access, and compliance across multiple subscriptions. ● Inheritance of Policies: Policies applied at the management group level automatically inherit down to linked subscriptions, simplifying governance. ● Organizational Structuring: Management groups help in structuring subscriptions by department, region, or environment (e.g., production vs. development), providing clarity and organization.
- 12. Configuring Azure Active Directory Tenants ● Tenant Basics: An Azure AD tenant represents a single organization and is linked to one or more subscriptions. It’s the backbone of identity and access management in Azure. ● Managing Multiple Tenants: For organizations with multiple Azure AD tenants, ensure proper configuration and delegation of roles to avoid administrative complexity and potential security risks. ● Tenant-Level Security Controls: Configure tenant-wide security settings like Conditional Access and MFA to protect all associated subscriptions under the tenant.
- 13. Assigning Resource Access with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) ● Granular Access Control: RBAC allows for the assignment of precise permissions at the subscription level, controlling who can access and manage resources. ● Default Roles vs. Custom Roles: Understand the default Azure roles (e.g., Owner, Contributor, Reader) and create custom roles when specific permissions are needed for certain users or groups. ● Best Practices for Role Assignment: Avoid assigning broad roles like Owner to multiple users. Instead, follow the principle of least privilege to minimize security risks.
- 15. Understanding Azure Policy Basics ● Purpose of Azure Policy: Azure Policy helps enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at-scale by creating, assigning, and managing policy definitions. ● Policy Definitions and Initiatives: A policy definition is a specific rule, and an initiative is a collection of policies grouped together to achieve a broader governance objective. ● Policy Effects: Policies can enforce, audit, deny, or append rules to resources, helping maintain control over the environment and ensuring compliance with organizational standards.
- 16. Creating and Assigning Policies ● Creating Custom Policies: While Azure provides built-in policies, custom policies can be created to meet specific organizational needs, ensuring unique compliance requirements are met. ● Assigning Policies at Scope Levels: Policies can be assigned at different scope levels, such as subscriptions, resource groups, or individual resources, offering flexibility in enforcement. ● Evaluating and Monitoring Compliance: After assignment, Azure Policy continuously evaluates resources for compliance, allowing administrators to monitor and act on non-compliance issues.
- 17. Using Policy Initiatives for Governance ● Grouping Policies for Ease of Management: Initiatives group multiple related policies, simplifying the management and assignment of policies across large environments. ● Applying Governance at Scale: Initiatives are particularly useful for applying broad governance rules, such as regulatory compliance, across multiple subscriptions or resource groups. ● Tracking Initiative Compliance: Use Azure Policy’s compliance dashboard to track how well resources adhere to the initiatives, making it easier to spot and address areas of non-compliance.
- 18. Remediation of Non-Compliant Resources ● Automatic Remediation: Azure Policy can automatically remediate non- compliant resources by deploying required configurations or removing non-compliant settings. ● Remediation Tasks: Administrators can create remediation tasks for policies that don’t support auto-remediation, allowing manual correction of non-compliant resources. ● Impact Assessment: Before enforcing policies with remediation effects, assess the potential impact to ensure critical resources or applications are not unintentionally disrupted.
- 19. Configure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- 20. RBAC Fundamentals ● Purpose of RBAC: RBAC is essential for managing who has access to Azure resources, controlling what they can do, and at what scope (e.g., subscription, resource group, resource level). ● Predefined Roles: Azure provides predefined roles like Owner, Contributor, and Reader, each with a specific set of permissions that can be assigned to users, groups, or services. ● Scope of Roles: Roles can be assigned at different scopes, offering granular control. For example, a Contributor role might be assigned at the resource group level, giving access only to resources within that group.
- 21. Creating Custom Roles ● When to Use Custom Roles: Custom roles are necessary when predefined roles don’t meet specific organizational needs. They allow for the precise configuration of permissions. ● Defining Permissions: Custom roles are built by selecting specific actions (e.g., read, write, delete) that users can perform on Azure resources, providing tailored access. ● Assigning Custom Roles: After creating a custom role, it can be assigned like any predefined role, either through the Azure portal, CLI, or PowerShell, depending on the administrator’s preference.
- 22. Best Practices for RBAC Implementation ● Least Privilege Principle: Always assign the minimal permissions necessary for users to perform their tasks, reducing the risk of unauthorized access or accidental resource modification. ● Regular Audits of Role Assignments: Periodically review and audit role assignments to ensure they still align with current job functions and organizational policies. ● Role Assignment Consistency: Use Azure Blueprints or scripts to standardize and automate role assignments across environments, ensuring consistency and reducing human error.
- 23. Integrating RBAC with Conditional Access ● Enhanced Security with Conditional Access: Combining RBAC with Conditional Access policies adds an additional layer of security, enforcing multi-factor authentication or location-based access controls. ● Scenario-Based Role Assignments: Use Conditional Access to dynamically adjust role permissions based on the user’s location, device compliance, or sign-in risk, ensuring access is only granted under secure conditions. ● Monitoring and Alerts: Set up monitoring and alerts for critical RBAC assignments, ensuring that any changes to high-privilege roles are flagged and reviewed immediately.
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