Proactive Security
Azure SQL Database provides Auditing and Threat detection to proactively protect it from malicious attacks.
Auditing
Auditing tracks and records database events to an audit log in a given Azure Storage account. Auditing can help you to:
- Maintain regulatory compliance
- Understand database activity
- Catch discrepancies or anomalies indicating a security violation
Auditing allows you to:
- Define what database actions are to be audited
- Find unusual activity or trends by using preconfigured reports and dashboards to understand and analyze the audit log
Auditing can be configured at the server-level and database-level. If auditing is configured at the server level, it'll automatically apply to all of the databases in the server. Auditing configured at the database will only apply to a particular database.
It's recommended to audit the server instead of auditing individual databases.
Configure Auditing for Azure SQL Server
In this section, we’ll configure auditing for...
