Azure Key Vault: The Complete Introduction

Name: Azure Key Vault: The Complete Introduction
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Store and access application secrets securely on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud

Created byCloud Shikshak

Last updated 8/2023

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What you'll learn

Understand Azure Key Vault core features and its usage scenario with hands on examples
Use Azure Key Vault to securely store and access application secrets like database connection strings, API keys, cryptographic keys, digital certificates, etc.
Understand difference between Management plane and Data plane of Key Vault
Use Role Based Authentication and Access Policies to securely access Key Vault and its data
Implement Azure Disk Encryption using Key Vault

Course content

9 sections • 53 lectures • 2h 44m total length

Introduction2:55

Module Overview0:30
Key Vault Secrets3:54
Demo: Key Vault Secrets8:10
Useful Resources0:05
Key Vault Keys9:32
Learn how Azure Key Vault stores asymmetric keys (RSA and EC) as JSON Web Key objects, with software or hardware protection, and supports sign, verify, encrypt, decrypt, wrap, and unwrap.
Demo: Key Vault Keys4:54
Demonstrates creating a key in a key vault, configuring software protection, expiration and activation times, restricting operations to encrypt and decrypt, and viewing versions and the public key.
Useful Resources0:08
Key Vault Certificates5:33
Demo: Key Vault Certificates4:48
Useful Resources0:06
Module Summary2:28

Module Overview0:51
Configure access policies to grant permissions for secrets, keys, and certificates to users and applications, then apply managed identity and network restrictions to securely control access.
About Access Policy2:14
Understand how old access policies grant permissions for keys, secrets, and certificates, why policies apply to entire keyboards, and why separate keyboards prevent two apps from seeing each other's secrets.
Demo: Configuring Access Policy5:24
Configure an Azure Key Vault access policy by assigning secrets, keys, and certificates permissions to a user or object ID, then validate least-privilege access in the portal.
Managed Identity4:09
Demo: Assign Managed Identity to Function App6:34
Network Restrictions1:48
Module Summary0:44

Requirements

Basic understanding of Microsoft Azure cloud
A free or paid subscription to Microsoft Azure
High level understanding of basic security concepts like authentication, authorization and identity
Excitement to learn Microsoft's constantly growing cloud platform!!!

Description

Learn about Azure Key Vault with this hands-on, project-based course and take a step towards securing your application secrets in Azure cloud.

Secrets, keys, and certificates are some of the most sensitive data in your organization and accidently exposing this data to the internet can be catastrophic to the individual, organization and its customers. But your applications need access to this critical data at runtime to perform various operations.

Azure Key Vault provides a secure central scalable storage of these artifacts in Azure cloud and gives admin granular control over who (user or application) has access to this data.

In this course, we will

Provision Azure Key Vault using multiple interfaces supported by Azure
Understand with examples different types of data that can be stored in Key Vault
Implement 4 real world scenarios using Azure Key Vault
Manage access to Key Vault and its data using Role Based Access Control and Access Policies
Monitor and log who is accessing the Key Vault

This Course Also Comes With:

Lifetime Access to All Future Updates
Links to interesting articles, and lots of code to practice and improve
A 30 Day "No Questions Asked" Money Back Guarantee!

This course is a great learning resource for anyone taking AZ-500 Exam for 'Azure Security Engineer Associate' certification to learn about the Azure Key Vault module of the exam.

Let's have some fun and build some awesome stuff in cloud together!

Who this course is for:

Anyone who want to understand Azure Key Vault core concepts and its usage
Developers, software architects who want to understand and implement secure applications in Azure
Anyone studying for AZ-500 certification exam

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 3min

Key Vault Basics4 lectures • 13min

Creating Key Vault6 lectures • 11min

Creating Data in Key Vault11 lectures • 40min

Common Key Vault Use Cases9 lectures • 44min

Managing Access to Key Vault7 lectures • 17min

Managing Access to Data in Key Vault7 lectures • 22min

Monitoring and Logging5 lectures • 10min

Wrap Up3 lectures • 5min

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