Azure Container Registry: Mitigating data exfiltration with dedicated data endpoints

By Dustin Ward

Azure Container Registry announces dedicated data endpoints, enabling tightly scoped client firewall rules to specific registries, minimizing data exfiltration concerns. Pulling content from a registry involves two endpoints: Registry endpoint, often referred to as the login URL, used for authentication and content discovery. A command like docker pull contoso.azurecr.io/hello-world makes a REST request which authenticates…