Chapter 14. Data encryption
The security of your data is important. More specifically, the security of your customers’ data is critical. We hardly go a week without a major company in the news after they encountered a data breach. Often, these incidents are caused by a lack of security, misconfiguration, or plain carelessness. In this digital age, it’s all too easy for attackers to automate their attempts to gain access to your data. The time to recover from a security incident at an application level may be nothing compared to how long it takes the business to regain the trust of its customers if their data was exposed.
Azure includes encryption features that make it hard to claim you don’t have the time or expertise to secure your data. In this chapter, we examine how to encrypt data stored in Azure Storage, on managed disks, or the complete VM. Entire books have been written about data encryption, and this chapter doesn’t dive deep into encryption methods and considerations. Instead, you see how to enable some of the core Azure features and services to secure your data throughout the application lifecycle.