This is Part#5 of our series of articles about best security practices that you can apply to an Azure environment. Please note that all the articles have been compiled from various official Microsoft sources.

What : Integrate guidance and automation for securing applications on the cloud

Why : Using resources and lessons learned by external organizations that are early adopters of these models can accelerate the improvement of an organization’s security posture with less expenditure of effort and resources.

How : Secure your application development / DevOps process by integrating existing guidance such as:

• Microsoft Secure DevOps Toolkit
• Organization for Web App Security Project (OWASP) DevOps Pipeline security