Advanced Threat Protection for Azure SQL Database detects anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases.

To help protect customer data, firewalls prevent network access to the server until access is explicitly granted based on IP address or Azure Virtual network traffic origin. IP firewall rules grant access to databases based on the originating IP address of each request.

Jan 26, 2024 · Databases in SQL Database are protected by firewalls in Azure. By default, all connections to the server and database are rejected. To learn more, see server-level and database-level firewall rules. Set Allow access to Azure services to …

Jun 17, 2019 · In this short article series, we will gain an in-depth understanding of the following topics that come under Advanced Data Security in Azure SQL. This article assumes that the reader is accustomed to create a basic Azure SQL Database with minimal configurations through the Azure portal.

Ensure that Advanced Data Security feature is enabled within your Microsoft Azure SQL server configuration settings to provide a set of advanced SQL security capabilities for your SQL database servers, such Data Discovery and Classification – used for discovering and classifying sensitive data, Vulnerability Assessment – useful for finding and m...

Oct 20, 2020 · Azure SQL Database allows you to easily configure Advanced Threat Protection, which detects security anomalies and threats and let's you know about them. Go and check it out!

Enabling Advanced Data Security on all SQL Servers ensures that SQL server data is encrypted and monitored for unusual activity, vulnerabilities, and threats. Ensure that Advanced Data Security is enabled for all SQL Servers. Log in to the Microsoft Azure Management Console.

Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL Database provides three capabilities to help secure Azure SQL Databases: Data discovery & classification: A built-in feature of SQL Database the performs read-only scans of your database to classify and track the access of sensitive data.

Jun 17, 2019 · Let’s keep the ball rolling and implement Vulnerability Assessment to identify, track and remediate vulnerabilities in Azure SQL Database. Select Azure Database (AdventureWorksDW2017 in our case) and click on Vulnerability Assessment tile present on the Advanced Data Security blade as shown below.

In this post, we will be discussing the Advanced Data Security feature on the Azure SQL Servers. It is enabled at the server level and will be automatically enabled at the database level. It is a charged service. Once you enabled it, you will be charged per month for this service.