Azure Security Center—News and updates for December 2020
Published date: January 04, 2021
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