Data Security Mechanisms of Microsoft Azure against Security Concerns

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to examine some of the security mechanism services developed by Microsoft Azure Cloud Provider for making sure of the organization with its all resources and functionalities are secured and well-defended against data security attacks and any system vulnerabilities. The services can be specifically listed as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Key Vaults, Azure Active Directory, and Multi-Factor Authentication, while the target user groups and exploitation methods used by attacks are analyzed under the title of ‘The Man in the middle’ attack. This thesis has reserved the fourth chapter for live implementations of the above-mentioned mechanisms, thus intended to reveal how organizations may advance their security capacity by approaching those services in the cloud computing infrastructure. The implementations have taken place by defined scenarios and cloud infrastructure is based on Azure Cloud Services.