Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals SC-900 Practice Question
Your company is moving several business apps to Microsoft Azure. Instead of relying only on on-premises firewalls, the security team wants to follow the idea that identity is now the primary security perimeter. Which statement best explains why identity is considered the new perimeter in modern cloud environments?
Identity-centric security protects only privileged accounts, leaving standard user accounts unaffected.
Access to resources is granted or denied based on verified user and device identities, regardless of their physical network location.
Internal network traffic is always trusted, so traditional perimeter firewalls can be safely removed.
Making identity the perimeter focuses primarily on encrypting data at rest while allowing unencrypted traffic in transit.
In cloud and hybrid environments, resources and users frequently operate outside a traditional corporate network, so IP-based boundaries are no longer reliable indicators of trust. By verifying user, service, and device identities each time access is requested, organizations can apply consistent access policies wherever the resource resides. This continuous, identity-centric control makes identity the most effective and extensible security perimeter. The other options misrepresent the model: it does not assume internal networks are trusted, does not neglect data-in-transit encryption, and certainly applies to every user, not just administrators.
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