New Blog | Understanding Azure DDoS Protection: A Closer Look
Azure DDoS Protection is a service that constantly innovates itself to protect customers from ever-changing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. One of the major challenges of cloud computing is ensuring customer solutions maintain security and application availability. Microsoft has been addressing this challenge with its Azure DDoS Protection service, which was launched in public preview in 2017 and became generally available in 2018. Since its inception, Microsoft has renamed its Azure DDoS Protection service to better reflect its capabilities and features. We’ll discuss how this protection service has transformed through the years and provide more insights into the levels of protection offered by the separate tiers. Read the full blog here: Understanding Azure DDoS Protection: A Closer Look - Microsoft Community HubSEP 26, 2023 | Ask-Me-Anything | Azure Firewall, Azure WAF and Azure DDoS
UPDATED, post-AMA: Here is the AMA recording in case you missed the live session. ************************************************************* Please join us in this Ask Me Anything session with the Azure Network Security CxE PM team. During this session, the Azure Network Security SME (Subject Matter Experts), will answer your questions on Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Web Application Firewall and Azure DDoS. This will be a great forum for our Public Community members to learn, interact and have their feedback listened to by the Azure Network Security team. Feel free to post your questions about Azure Network Security solution areas anytime in the comments before the event starts. The team will be answering questions during the live session, with priority given to the pre-submitted questions from the comments below. If you are new to Microsoft Tech-Community, please follow the sign-in instructions. To register for the upcoming live AMA Sep 26, 2023, visit aka.ms/SecurityCommunity. Mohit_Kumar andrewmathu SaleemBseeu davidfrazee ShabazShaik tobiotolorin gusmodenaNew Blog | Strengthening Your Defenses: Simulation Testing for Azure DDoS Protection
In the battle against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, it is crucial to have robust protection mechanisms in place. Azure DDoS Protection provides a powerful shield for your infrastructure, but how can you ensure it can handle real-world scenarios? This blog post walks you through DDoS simulation testing and its role in evaluating and enhancing Azure DDoS Protection. Discover how simulation testing can fortify your defenses and enable you to confidently withstand DDoS attacks. Read the full blog post here: Strengthening Your Defenses: Simulation Testing for Azure DDoS Protection - Microsoft Community HubNew Blog Post | Exclude Public IP addresses in Azure DDOS network protection
Full Article: Exclude Public IP addresses in Azure DDOS network protection - Microsoft Community Hub Azure DDOS network protection provides security for services deployed in virtual networks against volumetric attacks by way of always-on traffic monitoring and adaptive real time tuning. This may be achieved by applying DDOS protection plans to the different virtual networks in the different architectural tiers such as the Hub and Spoke network, Windows N-tier and Paas Web App architectures. Management of Azure services involves careful planning around available resources. One capability that is often requested by Azure DDoS protection customers is the ability to exclude certain public IP addresses from the protection plan to accommodate their prioritized workloads. For instance, public IPs attached to services in hybrid networking may be protected by DDoS plans in the hub or in the spoke virtual network depending on the type of architecture in use and the Public IP tier. A security administrator might also opt to use a DDoS IP protection SKU for certain workloads over DDoS Network protection. Original Post: New Blog Post | Exclude Public IP addresses in Azure DDOS network protection - Microsoft Community HubNew Blog Post | Zero Trust with Azure Network Security
Read the full article here: Zero Trust with Azure Network Security - Microsoft Community Hub As more organizations continue to migrate workloads into the cloud and adopt hybrid cloud setups, security measures and controls can become complicated and difficult to implement. The zero-trust model assists and guides organizations in the continuous digital transformation space by providing a reliable framework to manage complexity, secure digital assets and manage risk. The Zero Trust model assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originated from an uncontrolled network regardless of where the request originates or what resource it accesses, instead of believing everything behind the corporate Firewall is safe. For this blog, we will guide you through strengthening one of Zero trust principles - Assume breach. To read more about Zero Trust principles see Zero Trust implementation guidance | Microsoft Learn Azure Network Security Solutions – Firewall, DDoS Protection, and Web Application Firewall (WAF) provide Zero Trust implementation at the network layer ensuring that organizations’ digital assets are secured from attacks and there is visibility into the network traffic. In this blog, we will look at how Azure DDoS Protection, Web Application Firewall and Azure Firewall can be deployed to achieve Zero Trust. The deployment is set up with end-to-end TLS encryption showcasing the ability of WAF and Azure Firewall to inspect encrypted traffic. Original Post: New Blog Post | Zero Trust with Azure Network Security - Microsoft Community HubNew Blog Post | Azure DDoS IP Protection is Now Available in Public Preview
Azure DDoS IP Protection is Now Available in Public Preview - Microsoft Community Hub IP Protection is a new SKU for Azure DDoS Protection that is designed with SMBs in mind and delivers enterprise-grade, and cost-effective DDoS protection. You can defend against L3/L4 DDoS attacks with always-on monitoring and adaptive tuning that ensure your application is always protected. With IP Protection, you now have the flexibility to enable protection on a single public IP. Azure DDoS Protection integrates seamlessly with other Azure services for real-time alerts, metrics, and insights to strengthen your security posture. If you have only a few public IPs in your environment, then you can start with IP protection SKU which can be enabled directly on the Public IP resource, and you only pay for that protected resource. The cost is a fixed 199$/month for each public IP resource protected with no additional variable costs. Prices may vary by region. Billing for IP Protection will be effective starting on February 1, 2023. Please see full detailed pricing list here Azure DDoS Protection Pricing | Microsoft Azure Original Post: New Blog Post | Azure DDoS IP Protection is Now Available in Public Preview - Microsoft Community HubNew Blog Post | Azure DDoS Standard Protection Now Supports APIM in VNET Integration
Azure DDoS Standard Protection Now Supports APIM in VNET Integration - Microsoft Community Hub Azure DDoS Protection Standard provides enhanced DDoS mitigation features to defend against volumetric and protocol DDoS attacks, such as Adaptive real time tuning, always-on traffic monitoring, Azure DDoS Rapid Response support, cost protection telemetry, monitoring, and alerting. DDoS protection standard currently supports Public IPs in ARM based VNets such as Load Balancers, Bastion, Azure Firewall and Application Gateway. Now you can also protect your public IPs attached to VNet integrated Azure API Management (APIM) instances with Azure DDoS Protection Standard. Original Post: New Blog Post | Azure DDoS Standard Protection Now Supports APIM in VNET Integration - Microsoft Community HubNew Blog Post | Improve your Azure Network Infrastructure Security with Complementary Services
Improve your Azure Network Infrastructure Security with Complementary Services - Microsoft Tech Community Given the rising number of cyber-attacks and data breaches in recent times, security has become paramount. For a while now, it’s been clear that securing only your network’s perimeter is simply not enough. The idea that we can inherently trust systems or users in “internal networks” is a recipe for disaster. Not to mention, it’s likely that many of your systems and users are not even in an internal network anymore. In this ever-changing world, attackers are constantly finding new ways to exploit vulnerabilities. This is one of the reasons to consider the strategy of defense-in-depth: if there are multiple layers of protection in place and one of them fails, another security mechanism exists to stand in the way of an attack. Besides a multi-layered approach to security, having a Zero Trust mindset is important. We focus on three principles when pursuing Zero Trust practices: verify explicitly, use least privileged access, and assume breach. Original Post: New Blog Post | Improve your Azure Network Infrastructure Security with Complementary Services - Microsoft Tech Community
