Azure Storage is a Microsoft-managed cloud storage service, that provides highly available, durable, scalable and redundant storage, at a fraction of the cost, if you were to manage it manually. In this blog on Azure Storage, you will learn the different storage offerings from Azure such as tables, blobs, file storage and queues!

Organizations leverage Azure storage to store variety of Data like business use, PII or even confidential data, therefore is critical to understand the various options Microsoft provides to secure the data stored in storage account using tables, blobs, file storage and queues.

Course Introduction:

Before learning about Storage account security we have introduced lecture on "CLOUDSECURITYSHAREDRESPONSIBILITYMODEL" and reason is Azure storage is PAASservice wherein securing Storage account is shared responsibilities between MICROSOFT AZURE and CLOUDCUSTOMER. Given detailed lecture will help you to have solid understanding on security and compliance in Cloud

In this Course you will learn:

• Azure Storage account overview

• Methods for Securing storage accounts

• Securing Access using Azure Active Directory

• Concept of Management Plane

• Concept of Data Plane

• Azure storage Data plane Security.

• Azure storage Management plane Security

• Limitation of using storage account Keys

• Security using SAS Keys

• Azure storage security layers

• Securing access using firewall and Service Endpoints