Chapter 4 Mitigating security issues

Recent ransomware outbreaks, such as WannaCry and Petya, reinforced the importance of having a vulnerability-management system. But they also reinforced the fact that many computers are not fully updated and do not use the most secure configuration.

To enhance your overall security posture, you need to increase your protection. A security assessment is critical to identifying the current security state of your assets—and what you need to do to improve it. Azure Security Center can perform a security assessment for all major workloads: compute, network, storage, and applications. The result of this security assessment is a set of recommendations that will help you enhance the security posture of your workloads. ...

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