Azure Security for Cloud Migration and Interoperability

As you migrate to the cloud with Azure, security is top of mind. Azure provides a robust set of security features to protect your data and applications.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a key component of Azure security, offering multi-factor authentication and conditional access to ensure only authorized users access your resources.

With Azure Security Center, you can monitor and analyze your security posture, identify vulnerabilities, and take corrective action to prevent attacks. This helps you maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.

Fortinet Solutions can help you secure your Azure environment with its comprehensive and fully programmable multilayer cybersecurity and threat-prevention capabilities.

The Fortinet Security Fabric natively integrates into Azure, delivering consistent protection in a shared responsibility model.

Fortinet's cloud security solutions for Azure environments help organizations establish consistent protection, and its Virtual Next-Gen Firewall provides next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities for your Azure VPCs.

FortiWeb WAF defends web-based applications and APIs from known and unknown threats, while FortiMail delivers the latest intelligence to stop sophisticated email-borne threats.

FortiGate NVAs secure north-south, east-west, and internet-bound traffic in Azure vWAN, and Fortinet provides consistent ZTNA enforcement for both remote and campus workers.

FortiManager provides single-pane-of-glass management for unified, end-to-end protection, making it easier to manage your security infrastructure.

Fortinet Cloud Consulting Services for Azure can help you accelerate the time to value (TTV) and ROI of your security investments, and enable agile and robust protection for your Azure and multi-cloud environment.

Security Features are crucial for a comprehensive coverage of Azure cloud computing infrastructure. Microsoft Azure customers have access to some Azure cloud security features.

To ensure comprehensive coverage, customers need to supplement those with their own security efforts and tools. This includes securing and monitoring their Azure cloud computing infrastructure.

Customers also need to consider securing any of Microsoft's SaaS applications they may be using.

Migration and Interoperability is crucial to ensure seamless integration and robust security in Azure. Check Point's CloudGuard and Azure provide true unified security for sensitive workloads.

Azure offers a range of services to support interoperability, including Azure Virtual WAN, Microsoft Sentinel, and Azure Gateway Load Balancer. These services enable you to build a security posture that's better together with Check Point.

Some key services to consider for migration and interoperability are Azure Virtual Networks (VNet), Key Vault, and Azure Active Directory. These services provide a secure and scalable foundation for your cloud architecture.

Migration Guidance is a crucial step in ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud. To define a security strategy, you need to envision a security end state, which involves identifying the risks and threats associated with your cloud migration.

Developing a cloud adoption plan is essential to ensure a successful migration. This plan should include a detailed roadmap, timelines, and resource allocation.

To migrate and modernize security operations management, you need to consider application migration, modernization, and innovation. This involves migrating your applications to the cloud, modernizing your security operations, and innovating new security solutions.

Cloud management for operations teams and architects is also critical. This includes managing cloud resources, monitoring cloud security, and ensuring compliance with cloud security standards.

Security architecture design is a key aspect of cloud migration. This involves designing a secure architecture that meets your organization's security requirements and protects your cloud resources.

Here are some key considerations for migration guidance:

By following these guidelines and best practices, you can ensure a secure and successful cloud migration.

Interoperability is the key to seamless integration and efficient workflow. CloudGuard and Azure work together in perfect harmony, creating a unified security posture that's unmatched by any single solution. Check Point's partnership with Microsoft has earned it a top spot among ISVs.

Azure Virtual WAN enables secure and scalable networking, while Microsoft Sentinel provides advanced threat detection and incident response. Microsoft Defender for Cloud ensures comprehensive security across cloud and on-premises environments. Azure Gateway Load Balancer optimizes traffic distribution for improved performance.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) provides a managed container orchestration platform, while Azure Stack extends Azure services to on-premises environments. Azure Network Security Group (NSG) and Azure Application Security Group (ASG) provide fine-grained access control and security policies. Azure Traffic Manager ensures high availability and reliability for applications.

With Check Point, you can get up and running faster with out-of-the-box interoperability with Azure Virtual WAN, Azure Gateway Load Balancer, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and numerous Azure services.

Check Point enhances and extends Azure's native security, providing a more comprehensive cloud security solution.

You can simplify incident analysis across your configurations, posture, network traffic, and identity activity with Cloud Threat Hunting.

Automating ongoing intrusion detection, monitoring, and threat intelligence helps you stay one step ahead of sophisticated threats.

Check Point's advanced threat prevention capabilities actively protect Azure public and hybrid clouds from sophisticated threats.

Smarter prevention, actionable security, and faster remediation are all within your reach with Check Point's industry-leading cloud security solutions.

Cloud security compliance is crucial for any organization, and Azure provides streamlined, automated compliance and governance across all public cloud environments. This helps ensure that you're meeting the wide variety of international, federal, state, and local security regulations.

To manage identity and access in Azure, it's essential to have a plan for who can access what and when. This includes implementing multi-factor authentication and minimum access privileges, as well as understanding what's included in the Azure package and filling any gaps in security coverage.

Azure AD Privileged Identity Management provides key features to mitigate the risks of excessive access permissions, including just-in-time privileged access, time-bound access, and approval-based role activation. Here are some of the key features:

Compliance is a critical aspect of identity management. Cloud infrastructure is subject to a wide variety of international, federal, state, and local security regulations.

To achieve compliance, you need to leverage streamlined, automated compliance and governance across all public cloud environments. This can be a daunting task, but it's essential to ensure the security and integrity of your data.

Cloud security regulations can be complex and ever-changing, making it essential to stay up-to-date on the latest requirements. Leverage automated compliance tools to simplify the process and reduce the risk of non-compliance.

Identity Management is a critical aspect of Compliance and Identity. It's essential to have a clear understanding of who is accessing what and when, especially in the cloud.

In the Azure cloud, teams should have a plan in place for identity and access management, including multi-factor authentication and minimum access privileges. This will help mitigate risks and ensure that only authorized users have access to sensitive resources.

Azure AD Privileged Identity Management provides a robust set of features to manage privileged identities. These features include just-in-time privileged access, time-bound access, and approval-based role activation.

Here are some key features of Privileged Identity Management:

By implementing these features, organizations can ensure that their identity management practices are robust, scalable, and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Network security is a top priority in Azure, and it's great to see the platform offers robust features to keep your network safe. Network Security Groups (NSGs) evaluate traffic using a 5-tuple, allowing or denying traffic based on the connection state of the flow record.

Existing connections won't be interrupted when you remove a security rule, but traffic flows will be stopped if connections are stopped for at least a few minutes.

Azure Firewall is also a powerful tool, allowing you to configure application rules that define fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) that can be accessed from a subnet. Network traffic is then subjected to the configured firewall rules when routed through the firewall as the subnet default gateway.

Network security is a top priority in the cloud, and Microsoft Azure offers a range of features to help you protect your network.

FortiGate VM uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and threat intelligence to detect and block advanced threats, simplifying network security with central management and task automation.

Network Security Groups (NSGs) evaluate security rules based on the 5-tuple information, allowing or denying traffic based on source, source port, destination, destination port, and protocol.

Azure Firewall allows you to configure application rules that define fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) that can be accessed from a subnet, and network rules that define source address, protocol, destination port, and destination address.

Application security groups enable you to configure network security as a natural extension of an application's structure, allowing you to group virtual machines and define network security policies based on those groups.

You can reuse your security policy at scale without manual maintenance of explicit IP addresses, letting the platform handle the complexity of explicit IP addresses and multiple rule sets.

To ensure comprehensive coverage, customers must supplement Azure cloud security features with their own security efforts and tools, considering securing and monitoring their Azure cloud computing infrastructure.

Resource Management is a critical aspect of Network and Resource Management. You can lock a subscription, resource group, or resource to prevent accidental deletion or modification using Azure resource locks.

Azure resource locks can be set to CanNotDelete or ReadOnly, allowing authorized users to still read and modify a resource, but preventing deletion. The locks are also similar to restricting all authorized users to the permissions granted by the Reader role.

Azure Policy is a service that enforces different rules and effects over your resources, ensuring they stay compliant with corporate standards and service level agreements. All data stored by Azure Policy is encrypted at rest.

Custom RBAC roles can be created by defining a collection of permissions from a preset list. Once created, these custom roles can be assigned to users at a specified scope, granting them the necessary permissions.

A scope defines the set of Azure AD resources the role member has access to, allowing for a single role definition to be assigned many times at different scopes. This two-step process of creating a custom role definition and assigning it makes it easy to manage user permissions.