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Applying Azure Disk Encryption to a Windows Virtual Machine

You are working on securing your Windows Server virtual machines by encrypting their disks with Azure Disk Encryption. To do this, in this hands-on lab, you will be deploying an Azure Key Vault and an Azure Key Vault key to be used for the encryption key.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

45m

Published

Jan 26, 2023

Challenge

Enable Disk Encryption
- Enable disk encryption for the virtual machine on its OS and data disks.
Challenge

Deploy Azure Key Vault
- Create an Azure Key Vault.
  - Configure an access policy to allow Key Vault to encrypt VM disks.
- Create a Key Vault key.
Challenge

Confirm Encryption Has Been Applied
- Log in to the virtual machine.
- Confirm that BitLocker has been enabled.

Author

A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

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