Microsoft Azure IaaS, Virtual Machine security improvement.

Maciej
5 min readJun 17, 2021
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Introduction

In this post , I’d like to summarize what you need to do to make your Azure virtual machine more secure. Below there are some factors to consider to make your Azure virtual machines more secure:

  1. Secure privilege management
  2. Virtual machine update management
  3. AzureFirewall, NSG, Network Virtual Appliance
  4. Bastion and Just in Time access
  5. Adaptive application control
  6. Disk encryption
  7. File change monitoring
  8. Other

Secure privilege management

Enable MFA on your portal The Azure portal is very versatile and allows you to configure and perform a variety of operations. It’s good at the time of verification, but I would like to improve security when performing production operation. So, in production production cases, enable MFA to improve security when accessing the Azure portal.

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Maciej

DevOps Consultant. I’m strongly focused on automation, security, and reliability.