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Network security options - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press
Network security options
- [Instructor] Ensuring secure traffic flow to and between services is a core requirement for many solutions. An example is an external communication to a VM running a website. You only want to allow traffic to the server on a particular port, such as HTTPS, which uses port 443. It isn't just inbound traffic that needs to be controlled. Blocking outbound traffic can be just as important. From an organization stay, ensuring that you're protected from what's called insider threats is just as crucial, if not more so than external threats. And for this reason, we may want to block all traffic, both inbound and outbound, except for specific services. The first line of defense in Azure leads at the networking level is to use what's called network security groups or NSGs. NSGs allow me to define inbound and outbound rules that will allow or deny the flow of traffic from a source to a destination on a specific port. In many…
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