Security News > 2020 > January > Microsoft Releases Azure Security Benchmark
Microsoft this week announced the availability of Azure Security Benchmark v1, a collection of more than 90 security best practices recommendations for Azure customers.
ASB, Microsoft says, was designed to improve the consistency of security documentation for Azure services by creating a framework containing all recommendations for Azure services, in the same format.
ASB is meant to help organizations increase the overall security and compliance of their workloads in Azure, and includes 11 security controls inspired by, and mapped to, the Center for Internet Security 7.1 control framework.
The tech company also integrated ASB with Azure Security Center, to enable customers to track, report, and assess their compliance against the benchmark, directly from the Security Center compliance dashboard.
"ASB is the foundation for future Azure service security baselines, which will provide a view of benchmark recommendations that are contextualized for each Azure service. This will make it easier for you to implement the ASB for the Azure services that you're actually using," Microsoft says.
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