Compliance with modern industry standards is necessary for the business to stay safe from regulatory issues. Cloud computing has recently become popular in the digital domain and businesses are shifting to cloud platforms. But migrating to cloud platforms demands compliance with the rules and regulations of the business standards. What standards must be followed by the businesses? How to define policies for the common use cases? All such key policy aspects will be highlighted in this article.
Azure Policy — An Overview
Azure Policy is a service that allows your business to conduct a complete audit of cloud computing procedures. Businesses are provided with a centralized mechanism to manage and enforce policies throughout their Azure resources and their utilization within an IT infrastructure.
You can create custom policies in accordance with your business requirements. This process can be further automated using tools like Azure Automation or Azure Event Grid. Users are provided with a proper compliance dashboard which allows them to ensure that their utilized resources are compliant with the industry standards.
You can group together all the Azure policies into Azure policy initiatives. This makes it easier for you to enforce all the policies at the same time.
Governance Policies
Azure Policy allows you to set up a well-defined set of principles to secure the identities and data in your cloud environment. Governance policies define all the rules and configurations to strengthen your overall cloud security.
Azure Policy allows you to set up a well-defined set of principles to secure the identities and data in your cloud environment. Governance policies define all the rules and configurations to strengthen your overall cloud security.
Security Policies
Cloud computing is primarily about the utilization of resources. You can define rules and conditions to control the enforcement of resources in your cloud environment. All these security policies can be easily implemented through the Azure portal.
Like a typical Azure initiative, a security initiative is a collection of all the Azure Policy definitions.
Tagging Policies
Tags are assigned to the resources in Azure to keep them unique in identity and settings. You can enforce tagging policies to ensure the use of specific tags for all the resources in your cloud environment.
Access Control Policies
This policy ensures the management of access to resources in Azure. There are specific roles assigned to the users and applications in an organization. Access of these roles can be restricted to their specified domains through the use of an access control policy.
