Sunday, April 18, 2021

Secure Azure Virtual Machines Behind Azure Firewalls

Data Security is one of the most important concern of the IT industry. Hence, each individual of the project team is responsible for the security and encryption of the data. However, as OPS engineers, you have to introduce several data security mechanisms to your company. This blog post explains how to access the Azure Virtual Machine securely. 

Pre requisite

  • Azure Virtual Machine
  • Web app hosted in the IIS server inside the Azure Virtual machine
  • Network configurations are done to make Web app accessible from the outside of the VM
  • Azure firewall 

As the first step to secure the VM, we remove the public IP from the VM, go to public ip of the VM and click on Dissociate.