Course Introduction

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Hello, everyone.

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This course was architected by Toddy Mladenov with voiceover work from Jacob Salesman current.

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And in this course

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we will talk about azure policy.

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Let's dive in.

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To be successful with this course, you need to have familiarity with azure and azure services.

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There's a course on Cyberia that you could take to learn more about azure services.

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Next, you need to be familiar with JavaScript, object notation or Jason, because that is how the policies in Azure are described.

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And lastly, you need to have some understanding of I t. Governance and compliance. There is also a cyber recourse for that.

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Ah, little bit about the course architect.

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He spent more than 25 years in technology, and for 10 of those, he's designed and implemented cloud based services and applications.

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He holds several certifications in Azure, and he's also a Microsoft certified trainer.

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In his free time. He likes to bike, sale, ski play with the Internet of things, devices or cyber security.

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If you didn't know his nickname is a drink,

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you can read more about him or get in touch with him on his blogged.

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No,

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let's see who this course is for

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understanding how azure policy works can help I t. Auditors speed up internal audits and provide better internal guidance to development and I t teams to keep the cloud resource is compliant.

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Using the reporting capabilities allows I t auditors to easily communicate the compliance state toe external parties and regulatory bodies

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as your policy helps compliance managers when evaluating the compliance state of the cloud infrastructure.

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It also allows them to create custom controls that are required for the specific industry they work in.

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Cloud security Architect's can use azure policy to enforce security controls when they design cloud based systems.

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Cloud security engineers need toe Understand azure policy. To be able to implement those for the cloud resource is

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now what will you learn throughout this course?

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We'll start with explaining what as your policy is and what as your initiatives are.

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We'll talk about the policy definitions, assignments and how toe parameter rise your policies as well as what limitations exist for azure policy.

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Then we will look at how to create and manage as your policies and initiatives.

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We will do that from the azure portal and azure CLI,

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and we will look at the reporting capabilities for azure policy.

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And finally, we will look at how to create a custom azure policy using visual studio code and how to integrate with azure key vault.