Introduction to Azure Data Factory

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Introduction
Windows Azure is a platform of cloud computing that is designed by Microsoft in
order to successfully create, implement and then manage services and applications through a
global network of datatcenters. Security is about management of the access of the users to the
applications, portals and platforms of the organization. The providers of public cloud like
Microsoft Azure introduce a distinctive set of challenges of security for the providers of
solution to struggle with as the customers increasingly shift their workloads to the platform
that are more cost-effective. However, there are many issues of security in Azure.
From focusing heavily on the applications than the infrastructures to having, more
number of customers with the data, those are private and not accessible over the internet.
The article focuses on the security issues of the Microsoft Azure Platform and the
mitigation of the issues of the issues of Microsoft Azure. The article also describes about the
new features in Microsoft Azure that can mitigate the risks Microsoft Azure.
Overview
It is known that security is one of the most important activities in the cloud. One of
the reasons to utilise Azure for the services and the applications is to obtain benefit of tools of
abilities and security. These abilities and tools help make it possible to develop solutions that
are secured in the Azure platform. Microsoft Azure gives integrity, privacy and accessibility
of data of the customers and it enables accountability that is transparent.
Azure Platform
Azure is a cloud service platform that is public, which wires a large collection of
operating systems, tools, frameworks, databases, devices and programming languages (Rath
et al 2019). Azure can run containers of Linux with integration of Docker; create applications

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with python, .NET, PHP, Java, and JavaScript; create back ends for the android, iOS and the
windows devices.
The Azure Services that are public of cloud sustain the technologies that are similar and
many developers and professionals of Information technology depends on and trust. When
assets of IT are migrated to a public provider of cloud services that are relied on the abilities
of the organization in order to protect the data and the applications with the controls and the
services that they offer in order to administer the security of the property that are based on
cloud.
The infrastructure of Azure is designed from the facility to the applications in order to
host thousands of customers at the same time and it provides a foundation that is trustworthy
in which businesses can meet their requirements of security.
There are various security features in Azure that will help the company in its security
of data and there are additional features of security that can be added in the Azure application
to enhance the security of data in Azure.
Security Issues of Microsoft Azure
There is a variety of security problems in Microsoft Azure that should be taken care of.
The security problems of Microsoft Azure are as follows:
 Focuses on applications than Infrastructure: Microsoft is more focused on the applications
of Azure and it has changed the conversation to be around APIs and SaaS. It does not
focus on how to create or migrate the architecture.
 Azure Blob Storage is common target of the hackers: The Azure has been hacked more
than the Amazon Web Services. This is because it is an environment that is trusted. The
campaigns that are trusted are oriented around blob storage of Azure and they are very

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cheap and very effective as it is trusted by default and they are attacked more often as the
attacker are very familiar with the ecosystem of Microsoft.
 Firewall is less mature and easier to implement: the firewall of Azure is not as mature as
the firewalls that are offered by the vendors of traditional firewall. Azure was the first
cloud service provider with an in-built firewall.
 Subject to many Identities based attacks: Microsoft has transferred its on-premise tools of
identity to cloud and it pushes heavily to be utilised around Microsoft Azure. People from
various countries attempt to attack against Azure by trying to utilise tenant ID of an
organization and passwords across all the websites.
 Azure deployments are IT-centric: Many IaaS deployments in Azure are IT-centric rather
than cloud centric because of the relationship of Microsoft with the enterprises that are
traditional.
Mitigation Strategies
Security and Audit dashboard
The solutions of audit and security in the Azure application gives a view that is
comprehensive in to the IT security posture of the company with the search queries that are
in-built for the problems that require immediate attention (Copeland 2017). The audit and the
security dashboard that is home screen for the whole thing that is associated to the security in
the logs of monitor of Azure. It gives handy that is high-level into state of security of the
computer systems. It consists of the capability to see all the proceedings from the past 7 days
and 24 hours.
Azure Security center
The security center is the Azure application helps to respond, prevent and detect the
pressure with maximized control and visibility over the safety of the resources of Azure. It