Addressing cloud security challenges with Security Center

The main cause of breaches in the public cloud is the misconfiguration of cloud services. This is where Azure customers have configured resources and services in an insecure way. This misconfiguration is then exploited by attackers to breach their environment.

This challenge is compounded by the fact that workloads in the cloud are dynamic and constantly changing. This characteristic is both a strength and a challenge. On one hand, end users are empowered to do more. On the other hand, it is challenging to ensure that the ever-changing services and workloads are configured up to our security and compliance standards.

Attackers are also not relenting in their efforts. Attacks are increasingly getting more sophisticated, and they could be from anywhere – there are both internal threats and external threats.

The other challenge is that security skills are in short supply. We can see this just by looking at the...