🔥The Power of Azure’s Security Arsenal 🔥

◆ Using a Public IP without securing your Azure applications and resources exposes you to security threats. Today, we’ll explore the most powerful security solutions from Azure’s arsenal.

◆ Azure provides a multi-layered approach (more than one layer of protection) to secure your resources when using a Public IP. Organizations can now transform this open gateway into a fortified checkpoint. Here’s how these tools work together to mitigate risks:

🚀 Azure DDoS Protection 🚀

■ Protects your resources and services from being overwhelmed by malicious traffic. This excellent service is available for Network & IP Protection SKUs.

■ Uses Machine Learning to distinguish between normal traffic patterns and malicious flooding attempts (such as SYN floods or UDP amplification attacks) before they impact your applications and services ensuring availability.

🚀 Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) 🚀

■ Adds application-layer protection, intercepting HTTP/HTTPS traffic for inspection.

■ Blocks suspicious attacks like SQL injection or XSS by applying OWASP core rule sets, which define how attacks occur and how to defend against them, with continuous updates.

■ Enhances security for customer-facing services, ensuring trust and protection for your website and users.

🚀 Network Security Groups (NSGs) 🚀

■ Acts as a virtual firewall at the subnet or network interface level, filtering traffic based on predefined rules.

■ Can allow only trusted HTTPS (port 443) connections while blocking unsolicited RDP or SSH attempts.

■ Implements the critical security principle of reducing attack surface, ensuring only authorized traffic reaches your target resources.

🚀 Azure Private Link 🚀

■ In some scenarios, avoiding Public IPs altogether is the best security approach. This powerful service allows secure access to Azure SQL Database or Storage via Private Endpoints inside your virtual network.

■ Helps organizations minimize external exposure while maintaining secure, private connections to necessary services.

🚀 Azure Bastion 🚀

■ Provides secure access to Azure VMs without Public IPs, using RDP/SSH over encrypted TLS 1.2 traffic.

■ Uses a browser-based HTML5 web client to establish RDP/SSH sessions over TLS on port 443, fully compatible with any firewall.

■ Connects to VMs via Private IPs while enforcing NSG rules to allow access only through Azure Bastion.

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