The following are itemized steps to do the above exercise

1. In the Azure portal homepage select Storage accounts
2. select create
3. On the Basics tab, select your Resource group and name it then click create as seen in the image below.
4. Provide a Storage account name and the storage account name be unique in Azure. the storage account was named nicolestorage1
5. Set the Performance to Standard
6. Select Review, and then Create.
7. wait for validation then click create
8. wait for deployment to pass then click on resources
9. After clicking on the data management section, select the Redundancy blade. 10.Select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the Redundancy drop-down and save . 11.Settings section, select the Configuration blade and save
10. Ensure secure transfer required is Enabled 13.Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
11. ensure Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2
12. Until the storage is needed again, disable requests to the storage account.
13. in the setting section, select the configuration blade, ensure to allow storage account key access is Disabled and Save your changes
14. To ensure that storage account allows public access from all networks. In the Security + networking section, select the Networking blade
15. Set Public network access to enabled from all networks, Save changes.