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1. Module 3

2. Administer Governance and Compliance 01.

3. Access Azure Portal: Log in to the Azure portal. Manage Subscriptions: Navigate to Cost Management + Billing. Click on Subscriptions. Review and manage subscription details, including adding or removing subscriptions.

4. Definition and Purpose: Azure Blueprints allow organizations to define a repeatable set of governance standards and deployment practices. They ensure compliance by packaging policies, role assignments, and resource configurations. Implementing Azure Blueprints

5. Pre-Built and Custom Blueprints: Azure provides pre-built blueprints for common scenarios (e.g., regulatory compliance), and organizations can create custom blueprints tailored to their specific needs. Application Across Subscriptions: Blueprints can be applied to multiple subscriptions, enabling consistent governance and compliance across an entire organization’s Azure environment. Implementing Azure Blueprints

6. Continuous Assessment: Azure Security Center continuously assesses your environment for security risks and compliance violations, providing actionable insights and recommendations. Regulatory Compliance Dashboard: This feature provides a unified view of compliance across various standards like GDPR, ISO 27001, and NIST, helping organizations track their compliance status. Automated Remediation: Security Center can automate the remediation of certain security issues, helping maintain compliance without manual intervention. Monitoring Compliance with Azure Security Center

7. Resource Tagging Overview: Tags are key-value pairs that provide metadata for Azure resources. They are crucial for organizing resources and applying governance policies. Enforcing Tagging Standards: Azure Policy can enforce tagging rules, ensuring that all resources have the required tags, which helps in cost management and compliance reporting. Using Tags for Billing and Access Control: Tags help in tracking costs by department or project, and they can be used to apply role-based access control (RBAC) at a granular level. Managing Resource Tags for Governance

8. Hierarchical Organization: Azure Management Groups allow you to organize subscriptions into a hierarchy, making it easier to manage policies and compliance across multiple subscriptions. Centralized Policy Management: Apply governance policies and RBAC settings at the management group level, which cascades down to all associated subscriptions, ensuring uniform governance. Scalability for Large Enterprises: Management groups are particularly useful for large enterprises with multiple Azure subscriptions, as they simplify administration and compliance management at scale. Setting Up Azure Management Groups

9. Configure Subscriptions and Accounts

10. Creating and Managing Azure Subscriptions Subscription Types: Azure offers various subscription types like Pay-As-You-Go, Enterprise Agreement, and Dev/Test. Each is designed to meet different organizational needs and budgets. Subscription Limits and Quotas: Understand the resource limits and quotas for each subscription type, which are critical for planning and scaling your Azure environment. Managing Costs and Billing: Utilize Azure Cost Management tools within each subscription to monitor usage, set budgets, and control spending, ensuring financial accountability.

11. Linking Subscriptions with Management Groups Why Link Subscriptions?: Linking subscriptions to management groups allows centralized management of policies, access, and compliance across multiple subscriptions. Inheritance of Policies: Policies applied at the management group level automatically inherit down to linked subscriptions, simplifying governance. Organizational Structuring: Management groups help in structuring subscriptions by department, region, or environment (e.g., production vs. development), providing clarity and organization.

12. Configuring Azure Active Directory Tenants Tenant Basics: An Azure AD tenant represents a single organization and is linked to one or more subscriptions. It’s the backbone of identity and access management in Azure. Managing Multiple Tenants: For organizations with multiple Azure AD tenants, ensure proper configuration and delegation of roles to avoid administrative complexity and potential security risks. Tenant-Level Security Controls: Configure tenant-wide security settings like Conditional Access and MFA to protect all associated subscriptions under the tenant.

13. Assigning Resource Access with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Granular Access Control: RBAC allows for the assignment of precise permissions at the subscription level, controlling who can access and manage resources. Default Roles vs. Custom Roles: Understand the default Azure roles (e.g., Owner, Contributor, Reader) and create custom roles when specific permissions are needed for certain users or groups. Best Practices for Role Assignment: Avoid assigning broad roles like Owner to multiple users. Instead, follow the principle of least privilege to minimize security risks.

14. Configure Azure Policy

15. Understanding Azure Policy Basics Purpose of Azure Policy: Azure Policy helps enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at-scale by creating, assigning, and managing policy definitions. Policy Definitions and Initiatives: A policy definition is a specific rule, and an initiative is a collection of policies grouped together to achieve a broader governance objective. Policy Effects: Policies can enforce, audit, deny, or append rules to resources, helping maintain control over the environment and ensuring compliance with organizational standards.

16. Creating and Assigning Policies Creating Custom Policies: While Azure provides built-in policies, custom policies can be created to meet specific organizational needs, ensuring unique compliance requirements are met. Assigning Policies at Scope Levels: Policies can be assigned at different scope levels, such as subscriptions, resource groups, or individual resources, offering flexibility in enforcement. Evaluating and Monitoring Compliance: After assignment, Azure Policy continuously evaluates resources for compliance, allowing administrators to monitor and act on non-compliance issues.

17. Using Policy Initiatives for Governance Grouping Policies for Ease of Management: Initiatives group multiple related policies, simplifying the management and assignment of policies across large environments. Applying Governance at Scale: Initiatives are particularly useful for applying broad governance rules, such as regulatory compliance, across multiple subscriptions or resource groups. Tracking Initiative Compliance: Use Azure Policy’s compliance dashboard to track how well resources adhere to the initiatives, making it easier to spot and address areas of non-compliance.

18. Remediation of Non-Compliant Resources Automatic Remediation: Azure Policy can automatically remediate non-compliant resources by deploying required configurations or removing non-compliant settings. Remediation Tasks: Administrators can create remediation tasks for policies that don’t support auto-remediation, allowing manual correction of non-compliant resources. Impact Assessment: Before enforcing policies with remediation effects, assess the potential impact to ensure critical resources or applications are not unintentionally disrupted.

19. Configure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

20. RBAC Fundamentals Purpose of RBAC: RBAC is essential for managing who has access to Azure resources, controlling what they can do, and at what scope (e.g., subscription, resource group, resource level). Predefined Roles: Azure provides predefined roles like Owner, Contributor, and Reader, each with a specific set of permissions that can be assigned to users, groups, or services. Scope of Roles: Roles can be assigned at different scopes, offering granular control. For example, a Contributor role might be assigned at the resource group level, giving access only to resources within that group.

21. Creating Custom Roles When to Use Custom Roles: Custom roles are necessary when predefined roles don’t meet specific organizational needs. They allow for the precise configuration of permissions. Defining Permissions: Custom roles are built by selecting specific actions (e.g., read, write, delete) that users can perform on Azure resources, providing tailored access. Assigning Custom Roles: After creating a custom role, it can be assigned like any predefined role, either through the Azure portal, CLI, or PowerShell, depending on the administrator’s preference.

22. Best Practices for RBAC Implementation Least Privilege Principle: Always assign the minimal permissions necessary for users to perform their tasks, reducing the risk of unauthorized access or accidental resource modification. Regular Audits of Role Assignments: Periodically review and audit role assignments to ensure they still align with current job functions and organizational policies. Role Assignment Consistency: Use Azure Blueprints or scripts to standardize and automate role assignments across environments, ensuring consistency and reducing human error.

23. Integrating RBAC with Conditional Access Enhanced Security with Conditional Access: Combining RBAC with Conditional Access policies adds an additional layer of security, enforcing multi-factor authentication or location-based access controls. Scenario-Based Role Assignments: Use Conditional Access to dynamically adjust role permissions based on the user’s location, device compliance, or sign-in risk, ensuring access is only granted under secure conditions. Monitoring and Alerts: Set up monitoring and alerts for critical RBAC assignments, ensuring that any changes to high-privilege roles are flagged and reviewed immediately.

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