Azure Security Center gives you complete visibility and control over the security of hybrid cloud workloads, including compute, network, storage, identity, and application workloads. Azure Security Center (ASC) has two mains value proposition:
- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) – Help you prevent misconfiguration to strengthen your security posture for all different types of cloud workloads and resources in Azure (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS).
- Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) – Protect against threats for servers whether they are running in Azure, on-premises or in different clouds such as Amazon AWS or Google GCP, in additional to cloud-native workloads such as Web Apps, Kubernetes, Key Vaults, as well as for SQL databases (PaaS/VM) and storage accounts.
Azure Defender for Containers is one of many features that is included in Azure Security Center that falls under the Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) which is something you must consider for your containers running on Microsoft Azure.
Azure Security Center (ASC) is expanding its support in the container space to one of the fastest-growing services in Azure – Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). In November 2019, Microsoft announced the public preview for threat protection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support in Security Center. The good news is, on March 25th, 2020 the Azure Kubernetes Services integration with Security Center became Generally Available (GA).
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