#MVPLABSerie Azure Defender for Cloud with #AzureArc enabled SQL Server #AzureHybrid #Security

December 13, 2022 by James van den Berg Leave a comment

Azure Arc enabled SQL Servers Architecture

To keep your Business running, It’s important to secure and monitor your data. One of the security measures is doing Vulnerability assessments in your datacenter(s) to see the status and results for remediation. With Microsoft Azure Arc Defender for Cloud you can do a SQL Server vulnerability assessment in your on-premises datacenter or anywhere with the Azure Arc agent running.
Here you find more information about Azure Arc enabled SQL Server

Microsoft Defender for Cloud on Azure Arc enabled SQL Server

Here I activated Microsoft Defender for Cloud on Azure Arc enabled SQL Server, and Azure Defender for Cloud is doing a SQL vulnerability assessment to get the security status and results for remediation.

On this same Azure portal page you will see the Vulnerability assessment findings.

When you Open a Vulnerability finding, you get more information and the remediation for the issue.

Here you see the complete Resource Health of the Azure Arc enabled SQL Server.
Look at the Status of each severity.

Here you see all the vulnerability findings on these four databases.

When you do the remediation you will see the healthy status.
on the Passed tab.

Here I open only the OperationsManager database.
Now you see only the Vulnerability findings on this database.

Here you see a vulnerability finding on the SCOM database with the Remediation 🙂

You can make your Own Workbooks or use them from the Gallery.

Workbook example of Vulnerability Assessment findings.

Conclusion

With Azure Defender for Cloud vulnerability assessment and management you will learn a lot to set your Security Baseline on a higher level in your datacenter(s). Getting the right remediation of Microsoft to solve security issues is Great! You can do your assessments frequently to show your current status on demand. I Really like these Azure Hybrid Tools to make my work easier and the data more secure for the business.

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