Announced new features of Microsoft Azure Security Center

As more and more organizations innovate faster, moving their businesses to the cloud, improving security becomes critical for each industry. Azure has built-in security management for data, applications, computing, networking, identification and protection against threats, allowing you to customize security and integrate partner solutions.

We continue to invest in security, and we are happy to share the cool updates that were announced last week at Hannover Messe 2019. These include Enhanced Protection against Threats for Azure Storage, Compliance Dashboard and Support for Scalable Virtual Machine Sets ) (VMSS). Full list under the cat.


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The following features, announced on the Hannover Messe 2019, are now available for the Azure Security Center:

• Enhanced Azure Storage Threat Protection — A level of protection that helps customers detect potential threats in their storage account and respond to them as they arise — without the need to be a security expert.
• Compliance Dashboard - Helps Security Center customers streamline the compliance process by providing information on their compliance status for a set of supported standards and rules.
• Support for Scalable Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) — Easily track the security status of your VMSS with security recommendations.
• Dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) (available in the UK, Canada and Australia) - Provides storage of cryptographic keys in Azure and meets the most stringent security requirements and meets the requirements of customers.
• Azure Disk Encryption Support for VMSS — Azure disk encryption can now be enabled for Windows and Linux VMSS in Azure public regions — provides customers with the ability to protect and store VMSS data at rest using standard encryption technology.

In addition, support for virtual machine collections is now available as part of the Azure Security Center. To learn more, read our article on all these innovations [eng].