What's new in Azure Security Center?

ASC team has wrapped up 2020 with some great updates. Here are the December updates:

• Azure Defender for SQL servers on machines is generally available
• Azure Defender for SQL support for Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool is generally available
• Global Administrators can now grant themselves tenant-level permissions
• Two new Azure Defender plans: Azure Defender for DNS and Azure Defender for Resource Manager (in preview)
• New security alerts page in the Azure portal (preview)
• Revitalized Security Center experience in Azure SQL Database & SQL Managed Instance
• Asset inventory tools and filters updated
• Recommendation about web apps requesting SSL certificates no longer part of secure score
• Recommendations page has new filters for environment, severity, and available responses
• Continuous export gets new data types and improved deployifnotexist policies