Category Archives: Azure Security and Compliance

After you’ve implemented some partner solutions, Azure enables you to monitor those solutions. The Partner solutions tile on the Security Center blade lets you monitor the health status. The screen capture below shows the Security Center overview blade with the Partner … Continue reading →

To view the health of your partner solutions, select the Partner solutions tile. A blade opens displaying a list of your partner solutions connected to Security Center, as seen in the screen capture below: From this screen, select a partner … Continue reading →

Security Center is integrated tightly with third-party solutions from Azure partners. When it comes time to implement a solution to a Security Center recommendation, you often have several choices. You can implement one of the Microsoft solutions. Or, you can … Continue reading →

After reviewing the list of available recommendations, you can click on the individual line items to take further action. For example, if you click on the line item to Install Endpoint Protection, you will be presented with all of the … Continue reading →

As Security Center collects data from your Azure resources, it will periodically analyze the contents of that data and present you with recommendations to address potential security vulnerabilities. On the Security Center blade, the Recommendations tile displays the total number … Continue reading →

Once you click on the Recommendations tile you will be presented with a table as shown in the following illustration. Click on each recommendation to view additional information or to take action to resolve the issue. The following list describes … Continue reading →

In the event your resources are compromised you can receive an email notification. This is a new feature currently in Preview.

By default, all prevention policies are turned on. Prevention policies and recommendations are tied to each other. In other words, if you enable a prevention policy, such as OS vulnerabilities, then that enables recommendations for that policy.  In most situations, you will want to … Continue reading →

At the subscription level, you have two configuration items. Data collection. On or Off for the VMs in that subscription. Includes daily scanning of all supported virtual machines for security monitoring and recommendations. Also, it includes collection of security events … Continue reading →

A security policy defines the set of controls, which are recommended for resources within the specified subscription or resource group. In Security Center, you define policies for your Azure subscriptions or resource group according to your company security needs and the type … Continue reading →