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Conclusion
Security in the cloud is a complex topic and involves careful analysis of your requirements and design
options. This chapter covered the basics of the CIA triad and classified security options in terms of
confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
You also reviewed how to plan for strong encryption and hashing in your Visual Studio applications.
Finally, keep in mind that schema separation can be very useful and should be implemented early in
your development cycles.
By now, you should understand the many options available to you in order to secure you data in SQL
Azure and be aware of some of the limitations of the SQL Azure platform. Keep in mind, however, that
some of those limitations are likely to be either removed or mitigated at some point in the future as
Microsoft provides additional updates to its SQL Azure platform.
