Malicious insiders has always been a big concern for security professionals in the traditional on-premises data center setting, but with more and more organizations moving some or all of their applications and data to the cloud, the very concept of “insider attack” takes on a new and much-broadened perspective.
When you put your resources into the cloud using Microsoft as a public cloud provider, your “network in the cloud” is an Azure virtual network (which Microsoft documentation refers to as a VNet).
One of the big concerns for both small businesses and enterprises, when moving to the cloud, is security. We all know that the traditional username-and-password method of authenticating logons is woefully lacking in a world where resources available over the Internet are constantly under attack. If an attacker can steal, guess or socially engineer a user into voluntarily revealing a password, it’s relatively easy to access systems and services and put a company’s data and applications at risk.
Love it or hate it, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) seems to be here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future.
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