Azure Security Center—News and updates for September 2020
Published date: September 30, 2020
In September 2020, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure Security Center:
- (Ignite) Security Center gets a new look
- (Ignite) Azure Defender released
- (Ignite) Azure Defender for Key Vault is generally available
- (Ignite) Azure Defender for Storage protection for Files and ADLS Gen2 is generally available
- (Ignite) Asset inventory tools are now generally available
- (Ignite) Disable a specific vulnerability finding for scans of container registries and virtual machines
- (Ignite) Exempt a resource from a recommendation
- (Ignite) AWS and GCP connectors in Security Center bring a multi-cloud experience
- (Ignite) Kubernetes workload protection recommendation bundle
- (Ignite) IoT threat protection enhancements in Azure Defender for IoT
- Vulnerability assessment findings are now available in continuous export
- Prevent security misconfigurations by enforcing recommendations when creating new resources
- Network security group recommendations improved
- Deprecated preview AKS recommendation "Pod Security Policies should be defined on Kubernetes Services"
- Email notifications from Azure Security Center improved
- Secure score doesn't include preview recommendations
- Recommendations now include a severity indicator and the freshness interval
Items marked with (Ignite) were announced at Ignite 2020. Watch the on-demand sessions describing them in detail here.