Azure Security Center—News and updates for December 2020

In December 2020, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure Security Center:

• Global Administrators can now grant themselves tenant-level permissions
• Two new Azure Defender plans: Azure Defender for DNS and Azure Defender for Resource Manager (in preview)
• New security alerts page in the Azure portal (preview)
• Asset inventory tools and filters updated
• Recommendation about web apps requesting SSL certificates no longer part of secure score
• Recommendations page has new filters for environment, severity, and available responses
• Continuous export gets new data types and improved deployifnotexist policies

Other changes during this month included enhancements to Azure Defender for SQL as described in https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/defender-for-sql-december2020