Azure Cloud Security in a nutshell!

As you all may know that "Cloud security" is a sensitive and scary topic for many, and especially of your customer. And as a technologist working on cloud, it is the topmost priority for any CTO/Lead/Architect to ensure the stakeholders are convinced with the security measures that you are going to apply and the compliance you will adhere to.

I promised I will write an article about cloud security best practices, but that would be re-inventing the wheel when we already have an amazing Microsoft docs. Anyways, I have summed up the security section from my Solution Design document into a single slide (my last 4 years of lessons/pain compressed into a 4 mins read!). Hopefully, this makes sense to the security admins and solution architects. Hopefully, you can use this a tool/crib sheet and it's pretty self-explanatory, I think :)

Please note, this list is in context to Azure Architecture. For example: Continuous Justification means, your architecture should be valid and giving the desired benefits throughout your sprints, stages and phases of development, and continuously check if the design choices made are valid and justified. A good example, if you are moving from ADFv1 to ADFv2, ADWH from Gen1 to Gen2, do you actually have big data problems for a big data solution?, etc...

More details available below or ask me if you if you have any questions.

Hope you enjoy it. Your feedback or a like will be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Sherin Mathew,

Microsoft AI Lead and Azure Analytics Architect - IBM GBS UK