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articles/security/fundamentals/network-overview.md

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description: This article provides basic explanations about core network security concepts and requirements, and information on what Azure offers in each of these areas.
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#Customer intent: As an IT Pro or decision maker, I am looking for information on the network security controls available in Azure.
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## Azure Firewall
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Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. It is a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability. Some features include:
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[Azure Firewall](../../firewall/overview.md) is a cloud-native and intelligent network firewall security service that provides threat protection for your cloud workloads running in Azure. It's a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability. It provides both east-west and north-south traffic inspection.
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Azure Firewall is offered in two SKUs: Standard and Premium. [Azure Firewall Standard](../../firewall/features.md) provides L3-L7 filtering and threat intelligence feeds directly from Microsoft Cyber Security. [Azure Firewall Premium](../../firewall/premium-features.md) provides advanced capabilities include signature-based IDPS to allow rapid detection of attacks by looking for specific patterns.
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* [Azure Firewall overview](../../firewall/overview.md)
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* [What is Azure Firewall](../../firewall/overview.md)
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## Secure remote access and cross-premises connectivity
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This section provides additional information regarding key features in security operations and summary information about these capabilities.
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### Microsoft Sentinel
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[Microsoft Sentinel](../../sentinel/overview.md) is a scalable, cloud-native, security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solution. Microsoft Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for attack detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response.
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[Defender for Cloud](../../security-center/security-center-introduction.md) helps you prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility into and control over the security of your Azure resources. It provides integrated security monitoring and policy management across your Azure subscriptions, helps detect threats that might otherwise go unnoticed, and works with a broad ecosystem of security solutions.
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[Microsoft Defender for Cloud](../../security-center/security-center-introduction.md) helps you prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility into and control over the security of your Azure resources. It provides integrated security monitoring and policy management across your Azure subscriptions, helps detect threats that might otherwise go unnoticed, and works with a broad ecosystem of security solutions.
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In addition, Defender for Cloud helps with security operations by providing you a single dashboard that surfaces alerts and recommendations that can be acted upon immediately. Often, you can remediate issues with a single click within the Defender for Cloud console.
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A [Network Security Group (NSG)](../../virtual-network/virtual-network-vnet-plan-design-arm.md#security) is a basic stateful packet filtering firewall and it enables you to control access based on a 5-tuple. NSGs do not provide application layer inspection or authenticated access controls. They can be used to control traffic moving between subnets within an Azure Virtual Network and traffic between an Azure Virtual Network and the Internet.
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#### Azure Firewall
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[Azure Firewall](../../firewall/overview.md) is a cloud-native and intelligent network firewall security service that provides threat protection for your cloud workloads running in Azure. It's a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability. It provides both east-west and north-south traffic inspection.
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Azure Firewall is offered in two SKUs: Standard and Premium. [Azure Firewall Standard](../../firewall/features.md) provides L3-L7 filtering and threat intelligence feeds directly from Microsoft Cyber Security. [Azure Firewall Premium](../../firewall/premium-features.md) provides advanced capabilities include signature-based IDPS to allow rapid detection of attacks by looking for specific patterns.
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The ability to control routing behavior on your Azure Virtual Networks is a critical network security and access control capability. For example, if you want to make sure that all traffic to and from your Azure Virtual Network goes through that virtual security appliance, you need to be able to control and customize routing behavior. You can do this by configuring User-Defined Routes in Azure.
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[Microsoft Defender for Cloud](../../security-center/security-center-introduction.md) continuously analyzes the security state of your Azure resources for network security best practices. When Defender for Cloud identifies potential security vulnerabilities, it creates [recommendations](../../security-center/security-center-recommendations.md) that guide you through the process of configuring the needed controls to harden and protect your resources.
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If you need basic network level access control (based on IP address and the TCP or UDP protocols), then you can use [Network Security Groups](../../virtual-network/virtual-network-vnet-plan-design-arm.md). A Network Security Group (NSG) is a basic stateful packet filtering firewall and it enables you to control access based on a [5-tuple](https://www.techopedia.com/definition/28190/5-tuple).
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[Azure Firewall](../../firewall/overview.md) is a cloud-native and intelligent network firewall security service that provides threat protection for your cloud workloads running in Azure. It's a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability. It provides both east-west and north-south traffic inspection.
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Azure Firewall is offered in two SKUs: Standard and Premium. [Azure Firewall Standard](../../firewall/features.md) provides L3-L7 filtering and threat intelligence feeds directly from Microsoft Cyber Security. [Azure Firewall Premium](../../firewall/premium-features.md) provides advanced capabilities include signature-based IDPS to allow rapid detection of attacks by looking for specific patterns.
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[Forced tunneling](https://www.petri.com/azure-forced-tunneling) is a mechanism you can use to ensure that your services are not allowed to initiate a connection to devices on the Internet.
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[Microsoft Sentinel](../../sentinel/overview.md) is a scalable, cloud-native, security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solution. Microsoft Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for attack detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response.
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[Microsoft Defender for Cloud](../../security-center/security-center-introduction.md) helps you prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility into and control over the security of your Azure resources. It provides integrated security monitoring and policy management across your Azure subscriptions, helps detect threats that might otherwise go unnoticed, and works with a broad ecosystem of security solutions.

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