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Monthly updates for Microsoft Defender for Cloud: November 2019

Nov 14

Extension of Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Azure beyond virtual machines

IN PREVIEW

Customer Lockbox provides customers the capability to control Azure support engineers' access to workloads that contain customer data This expanded support now provides customers control over access to their data for a larger set of Azure offerings.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 14

Azure Disk Encryption in more places, and more services offering customer-managed keys

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Disk Encryption enables you to encrypt your Azure Virtual Machine disks with your keys safeguarded in Azure Key Vault.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 14

Release of Microsoft Secure Code Analysis toolkit to help you build secure code

NOW AVAILABLE

With the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension, you can infuse security analysis tools including Credential Scanner, BinSkim, and others into your Azure DevOps continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 14

Threat Protection for Azure Key Vault in Public Preview in North America Regions

IN PREVIEW

Azure Key Vault is an essential service for protecting data and improving performance of cloud applications by offering the ability to centrally manage keys, secrets, cryptographic keys and policies in the cloud.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 14

Threat Protection for Azure Storage includes Malware Reputation Screening

IN PREVIEW

You can now view detected malware across storage accounts using Azure Security Center.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Workflow automation with Logic Apps

IN PREVIEW

Today we are introducing a new capability in Security Center that allows customers to create automation configurations leveraging Azure Logic Apps and to create policies that will automatically trigger them based on specific ASC findings such as Recommendations or Alerts.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Azure Security Center Quick Fix for bulk resources generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

With the many tasks that a user is given as part of Secure Score, the ability to effectively remediate issues across a large fleet can become challenging. In order to simplify remediation of security misconfigurations and to be able to quickly remediate recommendations on a bulk of resources and improve your secure score you can use Quick Fix.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Additional regulatory compliance standards in Azure Security Center

IN PREVIEW

The Regulatory Compliance dashboard provides insights into your compliance posture based on Security Center assessments. The dashboard shows how your environment complies with controls and requirements designated by specific regulatory standards and industry benchmarks and provides prescriptive recommendations for how to address these requirements.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Features
  • Security
Nov 4

Scan container images for vulnerabilities in Azure Security Center

IN PREVIEW

Azure Security Center can now scan container images in Azure Container Registry for vulnerabilities. The image scanning works by parsing the container image file, then checking to see whether there are any known vulnerabilities (powered by Qualys).

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Threat Protection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Support in Security Center

IN PREVIEW

Security Center is expanding its support in the container space to one of the fastest growing services in Azure - Azure Kubernetes Service.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Vulnerability assessment in Azure Security Center

IN PREVIEW

Applications that are installed in virtual machines could often have vulnerabilities that could lead to a breach of the virtual machine. We are announcing that the Security Center Standard tier includes built-in vulnerability assessment for virtual machines for no additional fee.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Extending Azure Security Center coverage with platform for community and partners

IN PREVIEW

To support Security Center’s fast growth in the marketplace and meet our customers’ demands around threat protection, cloud security posture and enterprise scale deployment and automation, our team delivered on many new capabilities, as well as worked with some new partners that are part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Advanced data security for SQL servers on Azure Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Azure Security Center’s support for threat protection and vulnerability assessment for SQL DBs running on IaaS virtual machines (VMs) is now in preview

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Azure Security Center—Support for custom policies

IN PREVIEW

Azure Security Center now supports custom policies (in preview). Our customers have been wanting to extend their current security assessments coverage in Security Center with their own security assessments based on policies that they create in Azure Policy. With support for custom policies, this is now possible.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Azure Security Center—Advanced integrations with export of recommendations and alerts

IN PREVIEW

In order to enable enterprise level scenarios on top of Security Center, it’s now possible to consume Security Center alerts and recommendations in additional places except the Azure portal or API.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Onboard on-prem servers to Security Center from Windows Admin Center

IN PREVIEW

Windows Admin Center is a management portal for Windows Servers who are not deployed in Azure offering them several Azure management capabilities such as backup and system updates. We have recently added an ability to onboard these non-Azure servers to be protected by ASC directly from the Windows Admin Center experience.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
Nov 4

Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is proven guidance to accelerate your cloud adoption journey. It’s a collection of tools, guidance, and best practices to help shape your cloud strategy and achieve the desired business goals.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure DevOps Projects
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Azure Blueprints
  • Azure Management Groups
  • Azure Policy
  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Azure Database Migration Service (classic)
  • Azure Migrate
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Azure Advisor
  • Azure Service Health
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Security

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