Proactive Security

Azure SQL Database provides Auditing and Threat detection to proactively protect it from malicious attacks.

Auditing

Auditing tracks and records database events to an audit log in a given Azure Storage account. Auditing can help you to:

  • Maintain regulatory compliance
  • Understand database activity
  • Catch discrepancies or anomalies indicating a security violation

Auditing allows you to:

  • Define what database actions are to be audited
  • Find unusual activity or trends by using preconfigured reports and dashboards to understand and analyze the audit log

Auditing can be configured at the server-level and database-level. If auditing is configured at the server level, it'll automatically apply to all of the databases in the server. Auditing ...

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