PART I SECURITY PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER 1 Secure development lifecycle processes

CHAPTER 2 Secure design

CHAPTER 3 Security patterns

CHAPTER 4 Threat modeling

CHAPTER 5 Identity, authentication, and authorization

CHAPTER 6 Monitoring and auditing

CHAPTER 7 Governance

CHAPTER 8 Compliance and risk programs

PART II SECURE IMPLEMENTATION

CHAPTER 9 Secure coding

CHAPTER 10 Cryptography in Azure

CHAPTER 11 Confidential computing

CHAPTER 12 Container security

CHAPTER 13 Database security

CHAPTER 14 CI/CD security

CHAPTER 15 Network security

Appendix A: Core cryptographic techniques

Michael Howard is a 30-year Microsoft veteran and is currently a Principal Security Program Manager in the Azure Data Platform team, working on security engineering. He is one of the original architects of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle and has helped diverse customers such as government, military, education, finance, and healthcare secure their Azure workloads. He was the application security lead for the Rio 2016 Olympic games, which were hosted on Azure.

Heinrich Gantenbein is a Senior Principal Consultant on Cybersecurity in Microsoft's Industry Solutions Delivery. With 30+ years of experience in software engineering and more than 30 years of experience in consulting, he brings a wealth of practical know-how to his role. Heinrich specializes in Azure security, threat modeling, and DevSecOps.

Simone Curzi is a Principal Consultant from Microsoft's Industry Solutions Delivery. He has 20+ years of experience covering various technical roles in Microsoft and has fully devoted himself to security for more than 10 years. A renowned threat modeling and Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle expert, Simone is a regular speaker at international conferences such as Microsoft Ready, Microsoft Spark, (ISC)2 Security Congress, Carnegie Mellon's SEI DevOps Days, and Security Compass Equilibrium. Simone is also author of an open source threat modeling tool, Threats Manager Studio.

Plan, build, and maintain highly secure Azure applications and workloads As business-critical applications and workloads move to the Microsoft Azure cloud, they must stand up against dangerous new threats. That means you must build robust security into your designs, use proven best practices across the entire development lifecycle, and combine m...