Besides the right cloud strategy, a lot of infrastructure decisions must be made by an organization to lead the cloud journey to success. Before start moving workloads or modernizing applications on Azure, enterprises are faced with difficult and complex architectural decisions, like how to protect cloud applications from network-based cyberattacks using the right Azure Network Security services to meet the compliance rules.

In this session Stefan will focus on Azure Security topics from the network perspective and describe how Azure Network services, capabilities and mechanisms can be used to build highly secured cloud environments on Azure, focused on the following main areas:

• Architectural network security disciplines
• Conceptual network design & approaches
• Azure Virtual Network as foundation layer
• Network segmentation/isolation (zone models)
• Traffic management and control on cloud networks
• Security for external interfaces and endpoints

The audience will get the knowledge of how to create a secure platform and use Azure services the right way to build secure applications as well as to avoid potential vulnerabilities in the Azure “Landing Zone”. Based on the strict security and compliance requirements of organizations, Stefan will share all relevant recommendations, best practices, practical experience, and potential pitfalls to provision and mange cloud workload in Azure the secure and smart way.