As organizations increasingly migrate or modernize their application workloads to the cloud, ensuring robust security architectures is business critical. This technical talk dives into the network security within the Azure ecosystem, specifically tailored for developers! Attendees will gain broad insights into designing cloud application architectures that prioritize security from the beginning. Before start moving workloads or modernizing applications on Azure, enterprises are faced with difficult and complex architectural decisions, like how to protect cloud applications from network-based cyberattacks using the right Azure Network Security services to meet the requirements.
This session empowers developers with practical knowledge, best-practices, pitfalls to avoid, and real-world examples to implement secure cloud workloads in Azure. Whether the attendee is a seasoned cloud developer or a newcomer, this talk offers valuable insights applicable to enhancing security of Azure-based applications. The speaker will focus on Azure Security topics from a developer’s perspective and describe how Azure Network services, capabilities and mechanisms can be used to build highly secured cloud applications on Azure, focused on the following main areas:
- Secure Application Design
- Architectural network security disciplines
- Conceptual network design & Zero trust approach
- Segmentation & Isolation (zone models)
- Traffic management and control on cloud networks
- Security for external interfaces and endpoints
- Securing APIs & Communication
The speaker will share all relevant recommendations, best practices, practical experience, and potential pitfalls to design and implement cloud workload in Azure the secure and smart way.