Microsoft Azure Security Center, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2Introduction to Azure Security Center

Given the threat landscape presented in Chapter 1, clearly there is a need for a system that can both unify security management and provide advanced threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and on other cloud providers.

Azure Security Center gives organizations complete visibility and control over the security of hybrid cloud workloads, including compute, network, storage, identity, and application workloads. By actively monitoring these workloads, Security Center enhances the overall security posture of the cloud deployment and reduces the exposure of resources to threats. Security Center also uses intelligent threat detection to assist you in protecting your environment from ...