Azure Security Center

Azure – You can now export your Azure Security Recommendations and alerts in CSV

It has been a long awaited feature, the ability to export recommendations and more importantly alerts from Azure Security Center (ASC). Well, good news, this feature is now generally available To start using it, just logon to your Azure administration portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and reach your Azure Security Center From there, depending of what you want […]

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Azure – You can now enforce vulnerability assessment to be deployed on virtual machines

You may already know that Microsoft has introduced a vulnerability assessment capability to Azure – for either SQL Managed Instances, SQL Server or Virtual Machines. Well, this capability needs to be enabled at the resource level by accessing the Security blade of the virtual machine and click on Vulnerability assessment solution should be installed on

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Azure – Azure Secure Score has been simplified (preview)

By now you should know Azure Secure Score (ASS), the Azure Security feature which helps you review the security recommendations and prioritize them for you. Well, Azure Secure Score has been simplified and is now in preview. To start using this new and simplified Azure Secure Score, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and reach

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Azure – Quickly find the status of Azure Security Center recommendations

As you may know, Azure Security Center (ASC) is your own stop shop for everything related to the security of your Azure infrastructure (including when running in hybrid with your on-premises servers onboarded onto Azure). Microsoft is providing default built-in rules to help you secure your resources as per the latest recommendations. Off course you

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Azure – You can now define automation workflow on Azure Security Center (preview)

By now you should already know Azure Security Center (ASC), the unified one-stop shop security management for Azure, providing you details about your security posture and potential improvements. Well, you can now define automation workflow (in preview) to automate actions based on detection alerts or security center recommendations. Automation workflow uses Logic App to execute

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Azure – You can now define your own security policies in Azure Security Center

As you may already know, Azure comes with security center a feature providing unified and centralized security management for Azure called Azure Security Center (ASC). Until now, Azure Security Center was providing only built-in security policies (either from Microsoft or to comply with regulatory standards). Well, good news, you can now define your very own

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Azure – The Security Center now provides ‘one click’ remediation (preview)

As you know, Azure integrates a security dashboard, called Azure Security Center (ASC), to help you have a bird view on the security state of your Azure (but not only as it also provides details from your on-premises) environment. The Azure Security Center has been updated to provide a ‘one click’ remediation (when available) when

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Azure – You can now automatically on-board virtual machine on Azure Security Center

As you know, after provisioning a virtual machine you had to manually connect to your Azure Log Analytics workspace to deploy the Monitoring Agent on the VM and then get reporting to Azure Security Center. Well, now you can totally forget to do such thing as you will be able to get any new virtual

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Azure – Retirement and replacement of specific features in Azure Security Center

By July 31st, 2019, the following legacy features in Azure Security Center (ASC) will removed and replaced in either Azure Log Analytics or Azure Sentinel: Events Search Classic Identity & Access dashboard Threat intelligence dashboard Investigation flow in security alerts Edit security configuration settings for security policies Security and audit dashboard in Log Analytics You

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Azure – Azure Security Center playbooks

4 new playbooks to demonstrate Azure Security Center capabilities are available. With these 4 playbooks you can demonstrate/evaluate Azure Security Capabilities to protect your Azure resources against virus attack, SQL injection, DDoS on public IP or cross site scripting. You can deploy the playbooks from the following URL to your Azure tenant: Virus attack playbook

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