Azure Security Center—News and updates for September 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.