Category: The Cloud

In today’s dynamic IT landscape, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become essential practices for implementing Azure infrastructure changes as well as delivering software at high speed and with enhanced reliability. However, integrating change management processes—especially for organizations with strict compliance requirements—can be challenging.

In today’s cloud-driven world, logging and diagnostics are crucial for monitoring, securing, and optimizing your Azure environment. However, ensuring that all your resources are consistently logging as required can be challenging—especially in complex enterprise setups. This is where Microsoft Azure Policy comes into play, providing an automated, scalable way to validate logging configurations across your Azure investments.

In today’s ever-evolving threat landscape, achieving regulatory compliance isn’t just a checkbox exercise—it’s a critical element of securing sensitive information and ensuring enterprise resilience. For organizations operating in highly regulated industries, such as government, healthcare, and financial services, maintaining compliance with standards like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-53 Revision 5 is essential.

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In today’s cloud-first world, managing, monitoring, and securing cloud resources is essential for any organization using platforms like Microsoft Azure. One of the critical aspects of this management is implementing a robust logging and diagnostics strategy. Proper logging allows organizations to monitor the health, performance, and security of their applications and infrastructure.

As organizations accelerate their digital transformation journey, moving to the cloud has become a strategic imperative. However, managing cloud environments at scale can be challenging, especially when it comes to setting up a secure, scalable, and compliant infrastructure. This is where Azure Landing Zones and Accelerators come in—providing a structured approach to cloud adoption and deployment.

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“Azure Policy helps you manage and prevent IT issues with policy definitions that enforce rules and effects for your resources.” Azure Policy evaluates resources and actions in Azure by comparing the properties of those resources to organizational business rules or guard rails. Azure Policy uses a JSON format to form the logic the evaluation uses to determine whether a resource is compliant or not. Policy definitions represent these guard rails in the form of JSON. This JSON form represents the logic the evaluation uses to determine whether a resource is compliant or not. The defined rule can leverage functions, parameters, logical operators, conditions, and property aliases to match exactly the scenario you want. These policy rules determine which resources in the scope of the assignment get evaluated.