M06-Unit 9 Secure your virtual hub using Azure Firewall Manager

Exercise scenario

In this exercise, you will create the spoke virtual network and create a secured virtual hub, then you will connect the hub and spoke virtual networks and route traffic to your hub. Next you will deploy the workload servers, then create a firewall policy and secure your hub, and finally you will test the firewall.

Diagram of virtual network architecture with a secure hub.

Note: An interactive lab simulation is available that allows you to click through this lab at your own pace. You may find slight differences between the interactive simulation and the hosted lab, but the core concepts and ideas being demonstrated are the same.

Create a hub and spoke architecture

In this part of the exercise, you will create the spoke virtual networks and subnets where you will place the workload servers. Then you will create the secured virtual hub and connect the hub and spoke virtual networks.

In this exercise, you will:

Task 1: Create two spoke virtual networks and subnets
Task 2: Create the secured virtual hub
Task 3: Connect the hub and spoke virtual networks
Task 4: Deploy the servers
Task 5: Create a firewall policy and secure your hub
Task 6: Associate the firewall policy
Task 7: Route traffic to your hub
Task 8: Test the application rule
Task 9: Test the network rule
Task 10: Clean up resources

Estimated time: 35 minutes

Task 1: Create two spoke virtual networks and subnets

In this task, you will create the two spoke virtual networks each containing a subnet that will host your workload servers.

On the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual network and select Virtual Network when it appears.
Select Create.
In Resource group, select Create new, and enter fw-manager-rg as the name and select OK.
In Name, enter Spoke-01.
In Region, select your region.
Select Next: IP Addresses.
In IPv4 address space, enter 10.0.0.0/16.
Delete any other address spaces listed here, such as 10.1.0.0/16.
Under Subnet name, select the word default.
In the Edit subnet dialog box, change the name to Workload-01-SN.
Change the Subnet address range to 10.0.1.0/24.
Select Save.
Select Review + create.
Select Create.

Repeat steps 1 to 14 above to create another similar virtual network and subnet but using the following information:

Resource Group: fw-manager-rg (select existing)
Name: Spoke-02
Address space: 10.1.0.0/16 - (delete any other listed address spaces)
Subnet name: Workload-02-SN
Subnet address range: 10.1.1.0/24

Task 2: Create the secured virtual hub

In this task you will create your secured virtual hub using Firewall Manager.

From the Azure portal home page, select All services.
In the search box, enter firewall manager and select Firewall Manager when it appears.
On the Firewall Manager page, from the Overview page, select View secured virtual hubs.
On the Virtual hubs page, select Create new secured virtual hub.
For Resource group, select fw-manager-rg.
For Region, select your region.
For the Secured virtual hub name, enter Hub-01.
For Hub address space, enter 10.2.0.0/16.
Choose New vWAN.
In Virtual WAN Name, enter Vwan-01.
Select Next: Azure Firewall.
Select Next: Security Partner Provider.
Select Next: Review + create.
Select Create.

[!NOTE]

This can take up to 30 minutes to deploy.
When the deployment completes, from the Azure portal home page, select All services.
In the search box, enter firewall manager and select Firewall Manager when it appears.
On the Firewall Manager page, select Virtual hubs.
Select Hub-01.
Select Public IP configuration.
Note down the public IP address (e.g., 51.143.226.18), which you will use later.

Task 3: Connect the hub and spoke virtual networks

In this task you will connect the hub and spoke virtual networks. This is commonly known as peering.

From the Azure portal home page, select Resource groups.
Select the fw-manager-rg resource group, then select the Vwan-01 virtual WAN.
Under Connectivity, select Virtual network connections.
Select Add connection.
For Connection name, enter hub-spoke-01.
For Hubs, select Hub-01.
For Resource group, select fw-manager-rg.
For Virtual network, select Spoke-01.
Select Create.
Repeat steps 4 to 9 above to create another similar connection but using the connection name of hub-spoke-02 to connect the Spoke-02 virtual network.

Add hub and spoke connection to virtual WAN - Spoke 2

Task 4: Deploy the servers

On the Azure portal, open the PowerShell session within the Cloud Shell pane.
In the toolbar of the Cloud Shell pane, select the Upload/Download files icon, in the drop-down menu, select Upload and upload the following files FirewallManager.json and FirewallManager.parameters.json into the Cloud Shell home directory one by one from the source folder F:\Allfiles\Exercises\M06.

Deploy the following ARM templates to create the VM needed for this exercise:

Note: You will be prompted to provide an Admin password.

$RGName = "fw-manager-rg"
   
New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName $RGName -TemplateFile FirewallManager.json -TemplateParameterFile FirewallManager.parameters.json

When the deployment is complete, go to the Azure portal home page, and then select Virtual Machines.
On the Overview page of Srv-workload-01, in the right-hand pane, under the Networking section, note down the Private IP address (e.g., 10.0.1.4).
On the Overview page of Srv-workload-02, in the right-hand pane, under the Networking section, note down the Private IP address (e.g., 10.1.1.4).

Task 5: Create a firewall policy and secure your hub

In this task you will first create your firewall policy, then secure your hub. The firewall policy will define collections of rules to direct traffic on one or more Secured virtual hubs.

From the Azure portal home page, select Firewall Manager.
- If the Firewall Manager icon does not appear on the homepage, then select All services. Then in the search box, enter firewall manager and select Firewall Manager when it appears.
From Firewall Manager, from the Overview page, select View Azure Firewall Policies.
Select Create Azure Firewall Policy.
On Resource group, select fw-manager-rg.
Under Policy details, for the Name, enter Policy-01.
On Region select your region.
On Policy tier, select Standard.
Select Next : DNS Settings.
Select Next : TLS Inspection (preview).
Select Next : Rules.
On the Rules tab, select Add a rule collection.
On the Add a rule collection page, in Name, enter App-RC-01.
For Rule collection type, select Application.
For Priority, enter 100.
Ensure Rule collection action is Allow.
Under Rules, in Name enter Allow-msft.
For the Source type, select IP Address.
For Source, enter *.
For Protocol, enter http,https.
Ensure Destination type is FQDN.
For Destination, enter *.microsoft.com.
Select Add.
To add a DNAT rule so you can connect a remote desktop to the Srv-workload-01 VM, select Add a rule collection.
For Name, enter dnat-rdp.
For Rule collection type, select DNAT.
For Priority, enter 100.
Under Rules, in Name enter Allow-rdp.
For the Source type, select IP Address.
For Source, enter *.
For Protocol, select TCP.
For Destination Ports, enter 3389.
For Destination Type, select IP Address.
For Destination, enter the firewall virtual hub public IP address that you noted down earlier (e.g., 51.143.226.18).
For Translated address, enter the private IP address for Srv-workload-01 that you noted down earlier (e.g., 10.0.1.4).
For Translated port, enter 3389.
Select Add.
To add a Network rule so you can connect a remote desktop from Srv-workload-01 to Srv-workload-02 VM, select Add a rule collection.
For Name, enter vnet-rdp.
For Rule collection type, select Network.
For Priority, enter 100.
For Rule collection action, select Allow.
Under Rules, in Name enter Allow-vnet.
For the Source type, select IP Address.
For Source, enter *.
For Protocol, select TCP.
For Destination Ports, enter 3389.
For Destination Type, select IP Address.
For Destination, enter the private IP address for Srv-workload-02 that you noted down earlier (e.g., 10.1.1.4).
Select Add.
You should now have 3 rule collections listed.
Select Review + create.
Select Create.

Task 6: Associate the firewall policy

In this task you will associate the firewall policy with the virtual hub.

From the Azure portal home page, select Firewall Manager.
- If the Firewall Manager icon does not appear on the homepage, then select All services. Then in the search box, enter firewall manager and select Firewall Manager when it appears.
On Firewall Manager, under Security, select Azure Firewall Policies.
Select the checkbox for Policy-01.
Select Manage associations>Associate hubs.
Select the checkbox for Hub-01.
Select Add.
When the policy has been attached, select Refresh. The association should be displayed.

Show associated firewall policy on hub

Task 7: Route traffic to your hub

In this task you will ensure that network traffic gets routed through your firewall.

On Firewall Manager, select Virtual hubs.
Select Hub-01.
Under Settings, select Security configuration.
On Internet traffic, select Azure Firewall.
On Private traffic, select Send via Azure Firewall.
Select Save.
This will take a few minutes to complete.
Once configuration has completed, ensure that under INTERNET TRAFFIC and PRIVATE TRAFFIC, it says Secured by Azure Firewall for both hub-spoke connections.

Task 8: Test the application rule

In this part of the exercise, you will connect a remote desktop to the firewall public IP address, which is NATed to Srv-Workload-01. You will then use a web browser to test the application rule and connect a remote desktop to Srv-Workload-02 to test the network rule.

In this task you will test the application rule to confirm that it works as expected.

Open Remote Desktop Connection on your PC.
On the Computer box, enter the firewall’s public IP address (e.g., 51.143.226.18).
Select Show Options.
On the Username box, enter TestUser.
Select Connect.
On the Enter your credentials dialog box, log into the Srv-workload-01 server virtual machine, by using the password you provided during deployment.
Select OK.
Select Yes on the certificate message.
Open Internet Explorer and select OK in the Set up Internet Explorer 11 dialog box.
Browse to https:// ****.
On the Security Alert dialog box, select OK.
Select Close on the Internet Explorer security alerts that may pop-up.
You should see the Microsoft home page.
Browse to https:// ****.
You should be blocked by the firewall.
So, you have verified that you can connect to the one allowed FQDN but are blocked from all others.

Task 9: Test the network rule

In this task you will test the network rule to confirm that it works as expected.

While still logged in to the Srv-workload-01 RDP session, from this remote computer, open Remote Desktop Connection.
On the Computer box, enter the private IP address of Srv-workload-02 (e.g., 10.1.1.4).
On the Enter your credentials dialog box, log in to the Srv-workload-02 server by using the username TestUser, and the password you provided during deployment.
Select OK.
Select Yes on the certificate message.
So, now you have verified that the firewall network rule is working, as you have connected a remote desktop from one server to another server located in another virtual network.
Close both RDP sessions to disconnect them.

Task 10: Clean up resources

Note: Remember to remove any newly created Azure resources that you no longer use. Removing unused resources ensures you will not see unexpected charges.

On the Azure portal, open the PowerShell session within the Cloud Shell pane.
Delete all resource groups you created throughout the labs of this module by running the following command:
```
Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name 'fw-manager-rg' -Force -AsJob
```
Note: The command executes asynchronously (as determined by the -AsJob parameter), so while you will be able to run another PowerShell command immediately afterwards within the same PowerShell session, it will take a few minutes before the resource groups are actually removed.