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Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (replaces Azure Security Engineer Associate / AZ-500) SC-500 · Domain 2: Secure storage, databases, and networking

Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rules vs NSGs

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

In a large organization, individual application teams usually manage the NSGs on their own subnets. That is flexible, but it makes it hard for a central security team to guarantee that certain traffic, such as inbound RDP and SSH from the internet, is blocked everywhere. Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) addresses this by letting a central team define connectivity and security configurations once and deploy them across many virtual networks, subscriptions and regions.

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