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Feb 17, 2021
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Jumphost Questions?

Environment: Hub - Spoke Environment in Azure Jumphost: Will provision Windows based VM and not WVD (customer request)   Questions: a) Should Jumphost be hosted in Hub or can be hosted in the ind...
  • ibnmbodji's avatar
    Mar 07, 2021

    Hi since you are in an Hub and Spoke Topology the jumphost need to be on Hub (central operations ) and you can limit the incoming authorized requests either with network security groups either by using azure firewall or network virtual appliance of your choice .
    If the virtual machine is domain joined you can simply restrict administrative access and leverage app locker policies in Group Policy Objects .
    Since it's a Iaas workload the first thing to do is implement security best practice fundamentals
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/iaas
    There a many builtin policies in Azure Security Center now Azure defender to prevent detect and respond to threats to your Vms.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/security-policy

    Tips : Your Jumphost does'nt need to have Public IP , you can create a DNAT rule and leverage the public IP of your firewall . 

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