Security News > 2023 > June > Improve your app security on Azure

Azure Virtual Network Manager is a new tool for grouping network resources, configuring the connectivity and security for those resources and deploying those configurations to the right network groups automatically.

You can use this to create common network topologies like a hub and spoke that connects multiple virtual networks to the hub virtual network that contains your Azure Firewall or ExpressRoute connection.

The Azure Virtual Network Manager also automatically adds new virtual networks that need to connect to that resource or a mesh that lets your virtual networks communicate with each other.

Azure Network Watcher already has a mix of tools to help you monitor your network and track down problems that might affect your VMs or virtual network.

The new connection troubleshooting tool in Network Watcher runs those tools and reports back on network hops, latency, memory and CPU utilization as well as whether it could make a connection and, if not, whether that's because of DNS, network routing rules, network security rules or the firewall configuration.

If you use Network Watcher's network security groups, you can use Traffic Analytics to make sense of the flow logs, which track ingress and egress traffic to look for traffic hotspots or just see where in the world your network traffic is coming from and if that matches what you expect.

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