• Can be used to control traffic flow
• NSGs can be applied at the subnet or NIC level but are always enforced at the NIC
  • so apply at subnet level, easier to manage
  • each subnet can have max 1 NSG assigned to it
  • each NIC can have 0 or max 1 NSG associated with it

Security Rules consist of:

1. Source
2. Destination
3. Protocol
4. Port
5. Action
6. Priority
   1. Lower priority number has higher priority

Source and destination

1. can be CIDR
2. can be service tags
3. ASG (Application Security Group) (Tags basically)

Default rules

VNet, Internet, etc are service tags.

Inbound

1. AllowVNetInBound
2. AllowAzureLoadBalancerInBound
3. DenyAllInbound

Outbound

1. AllowVnetOutBound
2. AllowInternetOutBound
3. DenyAllOutBound

How it works if both vnet and subnet have nsg

In terms of precedence. Whichever is the first thing traffic encounters. So,

Incoming

• Subnet wins

Outgoing

• VM NIC NSG wins

Create NSG in Azure

references:

NSG MS Docs processing of NSG