Security is one of the most important aspects of any application. When you deploy an application on the cloud, you have to make sure you handle security at multiple levels including computing infrastructure, storage, database, application level and so on. Azure Security Center is a tool that can help you assist in your quest for absolute security for your applications. The tool comes free with Microsoft Azure account and can help you understand if any of your resources or applications need attention.
The image above of the Security Center shows us how we can easily get a high-level view of our security. It gives us actionable recommendations like- if we need to turn on encryption on some of our resources and if some API is exposed to the public which should be controlled.
The video below gives us additional view of security center usage