{"id":13465,"date":"2018-07-03T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=13465"},"modified":"2018-07-03T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:00:53","slug":"azure-security-center-preview-now-available-in-azure-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/azure-security-center-preview-now-available-in-azure-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Security Center Preview now available in Azure Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/03\/SecurityAtFingertips-GI-927633078.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"377\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13575 \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/03\/SecurityAtFingertips-GI-927633078-1024x683.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">While cyber threats affect every organization and every individual, governments face unique challenges. The recent<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #505050;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\"> <\/span><span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2017\/05\/11\/presidential-executive-order-strengthening-cybersecurity-federal\">Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Infrastructure<\/a><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"margin: 0px;color: #505050;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\"> <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">represents a key example of the growing pressure on government agencies to increase their efforts around protecting highly sensitive data and systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">To help our customers address their security challenges, we are announcing the preview of <\/span><span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/security-center\/\">Azure Security Center<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"> for Azure Government. Security Center delivers unified security management for hybrid cloud workloads, with continuous monitoring as well as security assessments and recommendations. Coupled with advanced threat protection to identify and mitigate risk and reduce exposure, this enables government cloud security teams to better protect their data, networks,<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"> <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">and IT infrastructure from cyberattacks<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">With Security Center, government customers can more easily<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">:<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Understand security state across on-premises and cloud workloads\n<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/span><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Government agencies often have a complex IT infrastructure, and now with Security Center you can get a unified view of security across your on-premises and cloud workloads. <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">In addition, you can automatically discover and onboard new Azure resources and apply security policies across your hybrid cloud workloads to ensure compliance with security standards. Especially important for agencies that operate across many locations, Security Center helps you collect, search, and analyze security data from a variety of sources.<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a><b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Find vulnerabilities and remediate quickly\n<\/span><\/b><\/a><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Security Center allows you to continuously monitor the security of machines, networks, and Azure services using hundreds of built-in security assessments, and actionable security recommendations help you remediate issues before they can be exploited.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Limit your exposure to threats\n<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">With Security Center, you can reduce exposure to attacks by enabling just-in-time, controlled access to management ports on Azure VMs to drastically reduce surface area exposed to brute force and other network intrusions<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">.<\/span><span><b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">\n<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Detect and respond swiftly to attacks\n<\/span><\/b><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Security Center employs advanced analytics and the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"> <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">to help you get an edge over evolving cyberattacks. Security Center provides built-in behavioral analytics and machine learning to identify attacks and zero-day exploits, and monitors networks, machines, and cloud services for incoming attacks and post-breach activity. <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/span><b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">\n<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Learn more:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Please visit this site to understand Security Center capabilities available for Azure Government: <\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/azure-government\/documentation-government-services-securityandidentity\">Azure Government Security + Identity<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">. You can also learn more from the <\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/security-center\/security-center-faq\">Azure Security Center FAQ<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\">We welcome your comments and suggestions to help us improve your Azure Government experience. To stay up to date on all things Azure Government, be sure to subscribe to our <\/span><span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/feed\/\">RSS feed<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\"> and to receive emails by clicking \u201cSubscribe by Email!\u201d on the <\/span><span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/\">Azure Government Blog<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI Light',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While cyber threats affect every organization and every individual, governments face unique challenges. 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