Security Center is a cloud security management platform that provides asset onboarding, vulnerability detection, virus scanning, and security alerting. This topic describes the complete process from purchasing to using Security Center to help you get started quickly.
Overview
Security Center is a cloud security management platform that provides continuous monitoring, in-depth defense, comprehensive analysis, and rapid response. Its main features include:
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Cloud asset management, configuration auditing, proactive defense, and security hardening
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Cloud service configuration assessment and security visualization
Security Center detects and prevents security incidents such as virus propagation, hacker attacks, ransomware encryption, vulnerability exploits, and AccessKey pair leaks. It helps you achieve closed-loop security operations, protects workloads including hosts, containers, and virtual machines in multi-cloud environments, and meets regulatory compliance requirements.
Billing
The Anti-virus Edition, Advanced Edition, Enterprise Edition, Ultimate Edition, and Value-added Plan of Security Center use the subscription billing method.
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Provides basic security hardening capabilities free of charge, including detection of unusual logons to your servers, DDoS attacks, common server vulnerabilities, and cloud service configuration risks. You can activate the Free Edition by selecting Security Hardening when you purchase an ECS instance. |
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Provides services such as detection and removal of common viruses on hosts. |
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Provides services such as host virus detection, virus removal, vulnerability detection and remediation, and security reports. |
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Provides security services such as host virus detection, virus removal, vulnerability detection and remediation, baseline check, asset fingerprinting, and attack analysis. It can help you meet the classified protection compliance requirements. |
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Provides security protection for both host and container assets, including image security scanning, container Kubernetes threat detection, container asset overview, security alerting, virus removal, vulnerability detection and remediation, baseline check, asset fingerprinting, and attack analysis. |
Purchase and trial
You can visit the Security Center buy page to purchase Security Center. For more information, see Purchase Security Center.
Security Center provides free edition users with a 7-day free trial of the Ultimate Edition. If you have not purchased Security Center, you can apply for a free trial of the Ultimate Edition to experience advanced features such as handling mining programs. For more information about how to activate the free trial, see Free trial of Security Center.
Usage process
Complete the following three steps to use Security Center to protect your assets. For the complete feature list, see Features.
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Onboard assets |
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Manage assets |
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Configure common features |
Developer tools
If you are familiar with network service protocols and at least one programming language, you can call API operations to manage resources and develop applications. For more information, see API overview.
OpenAPI Explorer can dynamically generate SDK code as needed.
Feedback and support
If you have any questions or suggestions about Security Center, you can use the following methods to provide feedback and obtain technical support.
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Pre-sales consultation: For more information, see Pre-sales consultation.
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After-sales support: For more information, see After-sales support.
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Product feedback: You can log on to Security Center console, and click the
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Documentation feedback: You can select the content with issues and click Feedback in the floating menu at the lower-right corner of the page to fill in the issue details.