Secure your cloud applications in Azure

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Security Engineer
Azure
Azure Policy
Azure Key Vault
Microsoft Entra ID
Azure API Management

Learn how to secure your Azure apps and associated data with encryption, certificates, and policy. This learning path can help you prepare for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate certification.

Prerequisites

None

Modules in this learning path

Learn how to incorporate security into your architecture design, and discover the tools that Azure provides to help you create a secure environment through all the layers of your architecture.

Secure your web applications on Azure and protect your apps against the most common and dangerous web application attacks.

Learn how to create security baselines for your Azure services by ensuring that your settings meet the minimum requirements described in CIS Benchmarks for Azure v. 1.3.0.

Your application requires service passwords, connection strings, and other secret configuration values to do its job. Storing and handling secret values is risky, and every usage introduces the possibility of leakage. Azure Key Vault, in combination with managed identities for Azure resources, enables your Azure web app to access secret configuration values easily and securely without needing to store any secrets in your source control or configuration.

Discover how to protect your APIs from unauthorized use with API keys and client certificate authentication.