Which service provides a real-time summary of security posture across subscriptions?
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Correct answer: Azure Security Center.
Why this is the answer
Azure Security Center (now part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud) provides a unified infrastructure security management system that strengthens the security posture of your cloud workloads. It offers a real-time summary of your security posture across all subscriptions, providing a secure score and recommendations to improve security. Azure Monitor collects and analyzes telemetry data from Azure resources but doesn't specifically focus on security posture. Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations for optimizing Azure resources for cost, performance, reliability, and security, but Security Center is the primary service for security posture management. Azure Activity Log records events that occurred in your Azure subscriptions, like resource creation or deletion, but doesn't summarize security posture.
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