Category Archives: Azure Security and Compliance

You can integrate Security Center insights with the REST API or Azure Log Integration. You can analyze Security Center insights with Power BI. Azure Log Integration Many security operations and incident response teams rely on a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution as … Continue reading →

Take a close look at this example Azure Security Center dashboard. Notice the areas that we will be exploring in this module: Resource Security Health (virtual machines, networking, and data), Recommendations, Partner Solutions, Policy, Quickstart, and Security Alerts.  

Security Center offers pricing in two tiers: Free and Standard. The Free tier of Security Center is automatically enabled with your subscription and provides visibility into the security state of your Azure resources. It provides basic security policy management, security recommendations, and integration with security products and … Continue reading →

Most organizations have solutions on-premises for monitoring the security of their infrastructure. As more resources are moved to the Azure cloud, the security of the cloud resources becomes a growing concern. Security Center will give you the tools needed to address … Continue reading →

Azure Security Center provides you with a centralized view of your Azure resources and their active security state. It provides integrated security monitoring and policy management across your Azure subscriptions, helps detect threats that might otherwise go unnoticed, and works with … Continue reading →

Diagnostic logging information isn’t available in the portal, you need to access the log information in your storage account. The information is stored as text and formatted as JSON blobs. Once the file is downloaded you can view the log … Continue reading →

You should enable diagnostic logging when you are troubleshooting and require very detailed information. Key vault diagnostic logging is not enabled by default. Once enabled, the following activities are logged. All authenticated REST API requests are logged, which includes failed requests as a result of … Continue reading →

The Azure Activity Log provides insight into the operations that were performed on subscription resources, like the key vault. Using the Activity Log, you can determine the ‘what, who, and when’ for any write operations on the resources in your subscription. You can … Continue reading →

Azure Disk Encryption is a new capability that lets you encrypt your Windows and Linux IaaS virtual machine disks. Azure Disk Encryption leverages the industry standard BitLocker feature of Windows and the DM-Crypt feature of Linux to provide volume encryption for … Continue reading →

The SQL Server Connector provides a bridge between SQL Server and Azure Key Vault. Using the key vault lets you benefit from having a separate central cloud-based key management system, the option to use hardware security modules (HSMs), and promotion of separation of … Continue reading →