What functionality does the Azure Security Score offer?

The Azure Security Score provides a comprehensive overview of your security posture, highlighting areas that require improvement and offering actionable recommendations to enhance your security measures. This score is designed to reflect your organization’s alignment with best practices in security, helping you to prioritize actions that will reduce your vulnerability to potential threats.

The score aggregates various security controls and assesses how well your environment adheres to recommended security practices. By using the Azure Security Score, organizations can focus on specific areas that need attention and get tailored advice on how to strengthen their security posture effectively.

While a detailed audit of every resource or a monthly risk assessment report could provide insights into specific security issues, the core purpose of the Azure Security Score is to present an overarching view of security health and highlight improvement paths. Additionally, a straightforward listing of compliance standards, while useful, does not encompass the proactive improvement recommendations that the Azure Security Score emphasizes.