Azure IaaS: Defense in depth built on secure-by-design principles
This blog post is the third part of a blog series called Azure IaaS which will share best practices and guidance to help you build a trusted infrastructure platform—from performance, resiliency, and security to scalability and cost efficiency.
Security for cloud infrastructure is no longer defined by a single control, product, or boundary. Modern threats target identity, software supply chains, control planes, networks, and data simultaneously. Addressing this reality requires two things to work together: a layered defense-in-depth architecture and security principles that are enforced consistently across the platform.
In Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), security is built around these two reinforcing ideas. First, Azure implements defense in depth, applying multiple, independent layers of protection across compute, networking, storage, and operations so that no single control stands alone. Second, those protections are guided by Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) principles: secure by design, secure by...
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