Azure Security Architecture session, as presented in Finland Azure User Group in Tampere on 20.2.2018 by Karl Ots, Azure MVP.

1. AZURE SECURITY
ARCHITECTURE
FAUG TAMPERE
20.2.2018

2. KARL OTS @ KOMPOZURE
• Co-organizer of Finland Azure User Group and IglooConf
• Podcast host at Cloud Gossip
• Working on Azure since 2011
• Patented inventor
• Worked with tens of different customers on full-scale Azure projects,
from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises
Managing Consultant
karl.ots@kompozure.com
+358 50 480 1102

3. IN THIS SESSION…
• Trusted cloud infrastructure
• Subscription governance
o Policies
o Resource Groups and
Subscriptions as management
level isolation
• Access control
o RBAC
o Azure AD

4. 2 Mil
kilometers
intra-datacenter
fiber
72+
Tb per second
Backbone
100+
datacenters
42
Azure regions
Millions
of servers
ACCESS
APPROVAL
Background check
System
check
PERIMETER
One defined
access point
Video
coverage
Perimeter
fencing
BUILDING
Two-factor
authentication with
biometrics
24x7x365
security
operations Verified single
person entry
SERVER
ENVIRONMENT
Employee &
contractor vetting
Inability to identify location
of specific customer data
Secure
destruction bins

5. SUBSCRIPTION
MANAGEMENT

8. ACCESS CONTROL

9. ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL SCOPES
Subscription
Resource Groups
Resources

10. RBAC ROLES
Owner
• Can perform all management operations for a resource and its child
resources including access management and granting access to
others.
Contributor
• Can perform all management operations for a resource including
create and delete resources. A contributor cannot grant access to
other.
Reader
• Has read-only access to a resource and its child resources. A reader
cannot read secrets.

11. RBAC AND POLICIES
Role Based Access
Control (RBAC)
• Controls what actions a
user may take on Azure
resources
Resource Manager
Policies
• Controls what actions
may be taken at a given
scope

12. RESOURCE POLICIES
• Resource Policies are used for maintaining consistency and enforcing the
governance model.
• Resource Policies are a core governance capability and provide ability
create defined organizational controls on Azure resources which restrict,
enforce or audit certain actions.
• Subscription-scope policies should be used to enforce data location
• Resource-scope policies should be used for appending tags

13. GEOPOLICY POLICIES
• Customers explicitly control geographic
placement of their assets according to their
sovereignty, security, compliance or latency
policies
• Azure also provides centralized Policy
controls to allow/disallow specific
geographies for all Azure services

14. RESOURCES
• Azure Trust Center
o https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/
• Microsoft Azure Security - Getting Started (free Pluralsight course):
o https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/microsoft-azure-security-getting-
started?twoid=43eb6e26-b9fd-4aa0-b88f-2604b82e810f
• Azure Virtual Datacenter (eBook)
o https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/azure-virtual-
datacenter/en-us/
• PCI-DSS Compliant PaaS Blueprint
o aka.ms/pciblueprints

15. KOMPOZURE
YOUR AZURE PARTNER