Preface

The purpose of this book is, on one hand, to introduce how security should be interpreted, and, on the other hand, to identify the security hot spots while using the Microsoft Azure platform as users and developers.

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's platform for Cloud computing. It provides developers with elastic building blocks to build scalable applications. These building blocks are services for web hosting, storage, computation, connectivity, and more, which are usable as standalone services or can be mixed together to build advanced scenarios.

In this book, we will try to learn how security should not be delegated to fancy tools or to all-in-one salvation software, but it is primarily related to creating awareness among people involved in business processes. Companies should (and must) implement internal procedures to assess themselves from a security perspective, documenting the risks they are subjected to, and the measures used to mitigate (if necessary) these risks.

Microsoft Azure is an evolving platform. Technical topics have a high decay rate, so Azure Services are also enriched on a daily basis with new features and service models, making the goal of writing a complete book almost impossible. However, this book focuses on core concepts that remain quite stable over time.