Microsoft Azure Security Center, First Edition

Chapter 2 Introduction to Azure Security Center

Given the threat landscape presented in Chapter 1, it is clear that 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, and application workloads. By actively monitoring these workloads, Security Center reduces the exposure of resources to threats. Security Center also uses intelligent threat detection to assist you in protecting your environment from rapidly evolving cyberattacks.

Security Center does more than ...