{"id":32974,"date":"2016-07-21T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:13:08","slug":"new-microsoft-azure-security-capabilities-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/new-microsoft-azure-security-capabilities-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft Azure Security Capabilities Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In November, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined a new comprehensive, cross company approach to security<\/a> for our mobile-first, cloud-first world. To support this approach, Microsoft invests more than a billion dollars in security research and development, every year. Today we are announcing the general availability <\/strong>of key security capabilities in the Microsoft Cloud, which are products of this research and development investment: Azure Security Center, Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, <\/strong>and Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These investments strengthen our efforts in three important areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. To deliver a holistic security platform<\/strong> where our products and services work in concert with each other, and with our partners<\/strong> in the security ecosystem, to protect our customers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Microsoft\u2019s unique insights into the threat landscape, informed by trillions of signals from billions of sources, create an intelligent security graph<\/strong> that we use to inform how we protect all endpoints, better detect attacks and accelerate our response.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. To ensure that when your organization leverages the Microsoft Cloud, it can improve your security posture, versus what you are doing to protect your on-premises IT environment alone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Azure Security Center is generally available<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    We are announcing that Azure Security Center is generally available. Azure Security Center provides customers around the world with security management and monitoring capabilities for the millions of resources they run in Microsoft Azure helping them keep pace with rapidly evolving threats in ways they likely could not achieve in their own datacenters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Driven by Microsoft\u2019s new approach to security, Azure Security Center is transforming how customers protect their cloud workloads. Powered by advanced analytics and a rich set of protection capabilities built into Azure, Security Center helps customers protect, detect, and respond to threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Since the preview launched in December 2015, Azure Security Center has helped protect over a 100,000 Azure subscribers and hundreds of thousands of virtual machines \u2013 providing our customers with a unified view of the security state of all their cloud workloads, recommending ways to strengthen their security posture in accordance with their company policies, and using behavioral analysis and machine learning to detect threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In addition, Azure Security Center integrates with an ecosystem of partners like Barracuda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Microsoft is an important partner to Barracuda as we look to help customers improve security for their deployments in Azure. Azure Security Center is just one part of the compelling security agenda we have seen from Microsoft, and we believe the way it integrates Barracuda solutions will be a great benefit to our customers,\u201d said Nicole Napiltonia, VP Strategic Alliances at Barracuda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In addition to announcing general availability, Azure Security Center includes a number of new features today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n