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Onboard on-prem servers to Security Center from Windows Admin Center
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.
Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
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.
September 2019
Managing rules with adaptive application controls in Azure Security Center has improved
Managing rules for virtual machines using adaptive application controls in Azure Security Center has improved.
Azure Security Center—Control container security recommendation using Azure Policy
Target availability: Q3 2019
Azure Security Center’s recommendation to remediate vulnerabilities in container security can now be disabled or enabled via Azure Policy.
Azure Security Center—1-click remediation for security recommendations is now available
Azure Security Center now allows you to remediate one recommendation on multiple resources with a single click.
August 2019
Just-in-time (JIT) VM access for Azure Firewall is now generally available
Secure your Azure Firewall protected environments, in addition to your NSG protected environments, with just-in-time VM access.
Security Center now has single click remediation to boost your security posture (in preview)
Remediate recommendations on a bulk of resources in a single click by using Secure Score, a tool that helps you assess your workload security posture.
Email notifications available for Azure Government alerts
You can now set up email notifications for Azure Government alerts.
Cross-tenant management is now supported in Azure Security Center
Security Center now supports cross-tenant management scenarios as part of Azure Lighthouse.
July 2019
Azure Security Center launched new SQL recommendations
New SQL related recommendations are now available
Azure Security Center for IoT now available
Azure Security Center allows you to protect your end-to-end IoT deployment with threat protection that identifies emerging threats and provides you with steps for remediation.
The recommendation for storage access restriction has been retired
The following recommendation has been disabled: Access to storage accounts with firewall and virtual network configurations should be restricted (Preview)
The recommendation and policy to enable encryption of storage account have been removed
Azure Storage is encrypted by default and cannot be un-encrypted, therefore the recommendation and policy has been removed.
Updates to network recommendations in Azure Security Center
There are new and updated Azure Security Center networking recommendations.
June 2019
Just-in-time access now supports Azure Firewall
Just-in-time (JIT) virtual machine (VM) access can now be used with Azure Firewall.
New ASC Threat Protection alerts for Azure Resource Manager (Preview)
Azure Security Center offers new security alerts (in preview) that detect unusual or potentially harmful operations using Azure Resource Manager service layer.
Security Center recommendations and their corresponding policy names are aligned
Now it is easier to find the relevant policy that match a recommendation and enable/disable it.
Adaptive Network Hardening in Security Center - now generally available
Adaptive Network Hardening provides recommendations to further harden the NSG rules
Improved integration of Azure Security Center with Azure Advisor is now available
You can now get clear visibility and reporting for your Azure Security Center recommendations in Azure Advisor
May 2019
Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is now available
With the adaptive network hardening feature, Security Center learns the network traffic and connectivity patterns of your Azure workloads and provides you with NSG rule recommendations for your internet facing virtual machines.
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