Azure Cloud Security | Microsoft Azure

Overview

Innovate with cloud security capabilities

Azure is designed with embedded security features to help protect every workload. 

Protect your cloud workloads from evolving threats with Azure’s built-in, defense-in-depth security—at no additional cost.

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Rapidly mitigate cyberthreats with end-to-end advanced security capabilities that can be added to the Azure platform.

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The Azure global network uses a Zero Trust approach to perform network segmentation and apply intelligent threat protection and traffic encryption.

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Translate strategies into action with confidence using best practices and guidance from Microsoft experts and partners.

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Azure security capabilities

Explore comprehensive, in-depth security tools and services available on the Azure platform.

Azure Key Vault

Safeguard cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and services.

Azure DDoS Protection

Protect your Azure resources and prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Azure Firewall

Help enhance protection with real-time threat alerts, a scalable firewall, TLS inspection, and centralized security management.

Azure confidential computing

Access a wide range of confidential compute options, including hardware, services, tools, and SDKs to protect your data.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security from code to cloud.

Azure Integrated HSM

The in-house security chip inside every new Azure server strengthens key protection by default, meeting demanding FIPS 140-3 security requirements.

Customer stories

Trusted by the most innovative brands

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"We get a suite of powerful tools from the Azure portal along with assessments from within the environment, greatly improving our monitoring and overall protection.”

Erik Bailey, Chief Information Officer, Anaqua

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"The combination of Azure’s cloud services and Vela’s security architecture makes it possible for FDB to scale securely, without compromising on performance or compliance.”

Sean Taylor, Director of Research & Development, FDB Vela

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"The impact of using Azure for our global audience has been tremendous, as we now engage with fans in 60 languages in more than 200 countries, deepening the personal connection to the NBA.”

Jon Hurwitz, Director of Product, NBA

"The connected security solutions that Microsoft provides to support its cloud capabilities were a major incentive for our choice of Azure.”

Paul Standaert, CISO Security Operations Team Lead, National Railway Company of Belgium

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"We consider it a perfect combination of innovative OpenAI models and the Microsoft infrastructure and everything that comes with it—enterprise readiness, security, and privacy.”

Mikael Head, Senior Product Manager, Staffbase

"Approximately 63% of cyber-attacks target users, not infrastructure. We’ve successfully intercepted numerous phishing attempts, including CEO fraud and ransomware threats.”

Wael El Khatib, Director, Digital, Information Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, Enova