Microsoft Antimalware for ?Azure Cloud Services? and Virtual Machines

Question

Hi,

In reference to the article "Microsoft Antimalware for Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines":

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/antimalware

What are these 'Azure Cloud Services"? The whole point of SAAS\PAAS services is that we don't have to deal with the underlying infrastructure from a Security point of view, so why do we need to enable the Antimalware on them?

Thank You.

Answer 1

Hi,

The document you are referring to is discussing Azure Virtual Machines and Cloud Services. Not Azure WebApps. 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/cloud-services/cloud-services-choose-me

For Azure Web App it is technically running on an Azure Virtual Machine. Those machines all have the correct anti-malware and anti-virus software installed and running to protect itself. 

you can check the below documentation on securing PaaS deployments such as Web Apps

Securing PaaS Deployments

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Answer 2

Thank you for making things clear !