# 1 Overview of the security pillar

Security is one of the most important aspects of any architecture. It provides confidentiality, integrity, and availability assurances against deliberate attacks and abuse of your valuable data and systems. Losing these assurances can negatively impact your business operations and revenue, and your organization’s reputation. For the security pillar, we’ll discuss key architectural considerations and principles for security and how they apply to Azure.

# 2 Tradeoffs for security

Security provides confidentiality, integrity, and availability assurances of an organization’s data and systems. When designing a system you can almost never compromise on security controls. When you enhance…