{"id":4559,"date":"2016-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-security-center-now-generally-available-proven-to-improve-security"},"modified":"2025-06-25T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:04:08","slug":"azure-security-center-now-generally-available-proven-to-improve-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-security-center-now-generally-available-proven-to-improve-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Security Center, now generally available, proven to improve security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Maintaining visibility and control of cybersecurity is a constant challenge. And as attackers innovate, keeping up with them can be an overwhelming task. On average, it takes more than 200 days for an organization to detect a breach. With the average cost of a breach reaching into the millions of dollars, the stakes have never been higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Microsoft, we believe a new approach is required\u2014one that leverages Microsoft\u2019s unique perspective on threat intelligence, which we have gained by operating cloud services at massive scale. Our new approach integrates security into the platform, and incorporates solutions from our partners. We invest more than $1 billion in research and development each year to advance our capabilities<\/a> in all of those areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Azure, that investment helps us build a solid foundation of physical, network, and operational security. We base our work on industry best practices and demonstrate our capabilities through a broad set of compliance certifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also invest in tools that help you achieve your security objectives for the resources you deploy in Azure. Today, we are pleased to announce that the latest of those tools, Azure Security Center, is generally available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During its preview period, Azure Security Center helped customers such as Chronodrive, Jet.com and Metro Bank gain visibility into the security state of their Azure resources, let them take control of cloud security policies, and monitored security configurations while helping them detect and respond to active attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure Security Center provided customers more than 500,000 recommendations to improve the security health of their resources. It used advanced analytics, including machine learning, and Microsoft\u2019s vast global threat intelligence, to detect more than 140,000 threats per month \u2013 providing actionable alerts and dramatically reducing detection and response times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In scenarios where additional security controls are recommended, Azure Security Center makes it simple to find, deploy, and configure controls that are built into Azure as well as solutions from partners. Solutions from Barracuda, Check Point, F5, Fortinet, Imperva, and Trend Micro are already available. Solutions from Cisco and Qualys will be available in the coming weeks. And the ecosystem will continue to grow, because we know our customers employ a wide variety of security tools to protect their infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s new<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We also added a number of new features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n