Security Centre

• Monitoring service that provides threat protection across all of your services both in Azure, and on-premises.

• The central feature in Security Centre that enables you to achieve good security is secure score - Security Centre continually assesses your resources, subscriptions, and organization for security issues. It then aggregates all the findings into a single score so that you can tell, at a glance, your current security situation: the higher the score, the lower the identified risk level.

• Security Centre can:

  • Provide security recommendations based on your configurations, resources, and networks.

  • Monitor security settings across on-premises and cloud workloads, and automatically apply required security to new services as they come online.

  • Continuously monitor all your services and perform automatic security assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

  • Use machine learning to detect and block malware from being installed on your virtual machines and services. You can also define a list of allowed applications to ensure that only the apps you validate can execute.

• Available in two tiers:

  • Free - Available as part of your Azure subscription, this tier is limited to assessments and recommendations of Azure resources only.

  • Standard - Provides a full suite of security-related services including continuous monitoring, threat detection, just-in-time access control for ports, and more.