Summary of Azure security capabilities

Depending on the cloud service model, there is variable responsibility for who is responsible for managing the security of the application or service. There are capabilities available in the Azure Platform to assist you in meeting these responsibilities through built-in features, and through partner solutions that can be deployed into an Azure subscription.

The built-in capabilities are organized in six functional areas: Operations, Applications, Storage, Networking, Compute, and Identity. Additional detail on the features and capabilities available in the Azure Platform in these six areas are provided through summary information.

This section provides additional information regarding key features in security operations and summary information about these capabilities

Azure Security Center

Security Center helps you prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility into and control over the security of your Azure resources. It provides integrated security monitoring and policy management across your Azure subscriptions, helps detect threats that might otherwise go unnoticed, and works with a broad ecosystem of security solutions.

In addition, Security Center helps with security operations by providing you a single dashboard that surfaces alerts and recommendations that can be acted upon immediately. Often, you can remediate issues with a single click within the Security Center console.

Application Insights

Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers. With Application Insights, you can monitor your live web applications and automatically detect performance anomalies. It includes powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users actually do with your apps. It monitors your application all the time it’s running, both during testing and after you’ve published or deployed it.

Application Insights creates charts and tables that show you, for example, what times of day you get most users, how responsive the app is, and how well it is served by any external services that it depends on.