Flash card security-azure disk

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Flash Card – Security of
Azure Disk
Prepared by Lai

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Azure Disk Encryption Technologies
Azure Disk
Encryption
(AES 256 bit
encryption)Storage Service
Encryption (SSE)
Azure Disk Encryption
(ADE)
Perform on the
physical disk in the
datacenter
Enable on storage
account
Encrypt the VM virtual
disk
Use bitlocker
(Windows) and DM-
Crypt (Linux)

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Azure Disk Encryption(ADE) Prerequisites
1. Create a key vault
2. Set the key vault access policy to support disk encryption
3. Use the key vault to store the encryption keys for ADE
Encryption
key stored
in Azure Key
vault
ADE
requires key
vault and
VM are in
the same
region
Powershell:-
New-AZKeyVault
Azure CLI:
Az keyvault create

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Create Key Vault
Encryption
key stored
in Azure Key
vault
ADE requires
key vault and
VM are in the
same region
Powershell:-
New-AZKeyVault
Azure CLI:
Az keyvault create

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Key Vault Access Policies
Powershell
Azure CLI
Set-AzKeyVaultAccessPolicy
az keyvault update

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Encrypting an Existing VM Disk
Windows VM Linux VM
All disk or OS disk
to encrypt
Data disk encrypt
(some distro)
Powershell
Azure CLI
Set-AzVmDiskEncryptionExtension
az vm encryption enable

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Viewing the status of a disk
Powershell
Azure CLI
Get-AzVmDiskEncryptionStatus
az vm encryption
New disks added after encryption will not be automatically encrypted. You can re-
run the Set-AzVMDiskEncryptionExtension cmdlet to encrypt new disks

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Decrypting Drives
Powershell
Azure CLI
Disable-AzVMDiskEncryption
az vm encryption disable

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Automate Secure VM Deployment
• Use Azure Resource Manager Templates (JSON
files)

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