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Security Center:Overview

Last Updated:May 25, 2023

This topic provides a brief introduction to the Overview page of the Security Center console. The Overview page is a security operations center for your Alibaba Cloud services. The page displays the information about your assets, including the security score, risks, security trends, and brief asset information. The page also provides entry points to upgrade and renew Security Center, and increase related quotas. You can perform security operations on your assets in a centralized manner on the Overview page.

Background information

On the Overview page of the Security Center console, you can view the security information about your assets and perform operations based on your business requirements. You can view the following information on the Overview page:

Secure Score

Improve the security score

The Secure Score section displays a security score that is calculated based on the security status of your assets. A higher score indicates fewer risks in your assets.

Secure Score

Log on to the Security Center console. On the Overview page, click Fix Now. In the Security Risk panel, you can view the penalty point for detected risks. If you want to handle risks of a specific type, you can click Process Now to the right of the type. On the page that appears, you can view the details of specific risks and handle the risks based on the risk details or the solutions that are provided.

The Security Risk panel displays the following types of risks that you must handle at the earliest opportunity:

Note

Security Center Anti-virus does not support the baseline check or attack awareness feature. Therefore, the items that are related to the features are not included when Security Center Anti-virus calculates the security score of your assets.

Security scores

The following table describes the ranges of scores and deduction items.

Security score

Description

Font color

95 to 100

Your assets are secure.

Green

85 to 94

Your assets are exposed to a few of security risks. We recommend that you reinforce the security of your system at the earliest opportunity.

Yellow

70 to 84

Your assets are exposed to a large number of security risks. We recommend that you reinforce the security of your system at the earliest opportunity.

Yellow

69 or lower

Your assets are at high risk. We recommend that you reinforce the security of your system at the earliest opportunity.

Red

Deduction items

Note
  • The maximum security score is 100, and the minimum security score is 10.

  • If the security score is greater than 60 after penalty points are endorsed but unhandled alerts are detected, the final score is still 60.

  • If the security score is greater than 80 after penalty points are endorsed but unhandled alerts or vulnerabilities are detected, the final score is still 80.

  • If the security score is greater than 90 after penalty points are endorsed but unhandled baseline risks are detected, the final score is still 90.

  • All paid editions in the following table indicate the Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions of Security Center.

Category (maximum penalty point)

Edition

Deduction item

Penalty point

Suggestion

Configuration risks of core features (20)

All paid editions

Web tamper proofing is disabled.

5

Use the feature of web tamper proofing

Basic

No rules are configured to prevent brute-force attacks.

2

Configure alert settings

Basic

Quick installation of the Security Center agent is not authorized.

2

If this is the first time that you use this feature, obtain the required permissions.

Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate

Configuration assessment is not authorized.

2

If this is the first time that you use this feature, obtain the required permissions.

All paid editions

Log analysis is disabled.

2

Enable log analysis

All paid editions

Antivirus is disabled.

2

Use proactive defense

All paid editions

No anti-ransomware policies are created.

15

Create an anti-ransomware policy

All paid editions

Periodic virus detection is disabled.

5

Step 1: Scan for viruses

Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate

Container images that can be scanned are not specified.

5

Scan images

Ultimate

Kubernetes threat detection is disabled.

5

Enable features on the Container Protection Settings tab

Unhandled alert events (25)

All paid editions

Unhandled high-risk alert events are detected.

20

View and handle alert events

All paid editions

Unhandled medium-risk alert events are detected.

20

View and handle alert events

All paid editions

Unhandled low-risk alert events are detected.

20

View and handle alert events

Unfixed vulnerabilities (20)

Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate

Unfixed Web-CMS vulnerabilities are detected.

2

View and handle vulnerabilities

Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate

Unfixed Windows system vulnerabilities are detected.

2

Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate

Unfixed Linux software vulnerabilities are detected.

2

Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate

Unfixed urgent vulnerabilities are detected.

5

Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate

Urgent vulnerabilities exist but are not detected. If no Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances are used, no penalty points are endorsed.

3

Baseline risks (10)

Enterprise and Ultimate

Baseline risks are detected.

1

View baseline check results and handle baseline risks

Configuration risks of cloud services (10)

Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate

Check items that are of the Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) type and failed to pass a check.

3

Configuration assessment

Check items that are of the security risk type and failed to pass a check.

5

Check items that are of the compliance risk type and failed to pass a check.

2

AccessKey pair leaks (15)

All editions

AccessKey pair leaks are detected.

15

Detection of AccessKey pair leaks

Edition and protection details

The section in the upper-right corner of the Overview tab displays the Security Center edition that you use, the date on which Security Center expires, and the statistics about your assets. The statistics include Total Assets, Purchased Quota, Remaining licenses, Unprotected assets (ECS), Remaining Anti-ransomware Capacity, Remaining Log Storage Capacity, Security capability enabled, Virus Library Version, and System Vul scan time.

Security Center edition

You can perform the following operations in this section:

  • Try Security Center Ultimate: If you use Security Center Basic and meet the requirements to apply for a free trial, click Try Now to start the free trial of Security Center Ultimate. For more information, see Apply for a 7-day free trial of Security Center.

  • Purchase Security Center: Click Buy Now to purchase Security Center. For more information about the features that each edition supports, see Functions and features. For more information about how to purchase Security Center, see Purchase Security Center.

  • Upgrade Now: If you use the Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition of Security Center and want to upgrade Security Center or increase the number of protected servers, the quota for cores of servers that you want to protect, or the purchased quota of a value-added feature, click Upgrade Now. You can also click Upgrade Now to separately enable value-added features. For more information, see Upgrade and downgrade Security Center.

  • Renewal: If you use the Anti-virus, Multi-edition, Advanced, Enterprise, Ultimate, or Value-added Plan edition of Security Center and want to renew Security Center before it expires, click Renewal. For more information, see Renew the subscription to Security Center.

  • Install the Security Center agent: If you want to install the Security Center agent on unprotected servers, click Install now below Unprotected assets (ECS) to go to the Agent tab of the Feature Settings page. Then, install the Security Center agent on the unprotected servers to protect the servers. For more information, see Install the Security Center agent.

  • Purchase additional capacity: If the available anti-ransomware capacity or log storage capacity is less than 10%, click Upgrade to purchase additional anti-ransomware capacity or log storage capacity.

Security risks

The Security risk section displays the following information: Unhandled Alerts, Unfixed Vul, Baseline Risks, Cloud Platform Configuration Assessment, AccessKey Leak, Image security scan, and Tamper Protection. Security riskThe following table describes the details.

Type

Description

Unhandled Alerts

This section displays the total number of unhandled alerts on your assets and the numbers of alerts at different risk levels.

The alerts generated by Security Center are classified into the following risk levels:

  • Urgent: high-risk alerts. If high-risk alerts are generated, intrusion events such as reverse shells are detected on your server. We recommend that you view the details of the alerts and handle the alerts at the earliest opportunity.

  • Warning: medium-risk alerts. If medium-risk alerts are generated, exceptions such as suspicious command sequences are detected on your server. We recommend that you view the details of the alerts, check whether your server is at risk, and handle the alerts.

  • Notice: low-risk alerts. If low-risk alerts are generated, low-risk exceptions such as suspicious port listening are detected on your server. We recommend that you view the details of the alerts at the earliest opportunity.

You can click the number below Unhandled Alerts to go to the Alerts page to view and handle alerts. For more information, see View and handle alert events.

Unfixed Vul

This section displays the total number of unfixed vulnerabilities in your assets.

You can click the number below Unfixed Vul to go to the Vulnerabilities page to view and handle vulnerabilities. For more information, see Vulnerability fixes.

Baseline Risks

This section displays the number of baseline risks in your assets.

You can click the number below Baseline Risks to go to the Baseline Check page to view and handle baseline risks. For more information, see View baseline check results and handle baseline risks.

Cloud Platform Configuration Assessment

This section displays the risks in the baseline configurations of your cloud services.

You can click the number below Config Assessment to go to the Cloud Platform Configuration Assessment page to view and handle the detected risks in the configurations of your cloud services. For more information, see Configuration assessment.

AccessKey Leak

This section displays the total number of unhandled AccessKey pair leaks on your assets.

You can click the number below AccessKey Leak to go to the AK leak detection page to view and handle AccessKey pair leaks. For more information, see Detection of AccessKey pair leaks.

Image security scan

This section displays the total number of unhandled risks and vulnerabilities in your images.

You can click the number below Image security scan to go to the Image Security page to view and handle image risks and vulnerabilities. For more information, see Scan images.

Tamper Protection

This section displays the total number of tampered web pages in your assets.

You can click the number below Tamper Protection to go to the Tamper Protection page to view and handle the tampering risks. For more information, see Overview.

Security operations trend

The Security Operations Trend section displays the trends of the numbers of alerts, vulnerabilities, and baseline risks within a specific time range in a column chart. The section also displays the trends of the numbers of detected risks and handled risks in the current day in a line chart. Risks that are ignored, handled, or added to a whitelist are considered handled risks. By default, this section displays the statistics in the last seven days. You can specify a time range or set the time range to Last 30 days. Security Operations Trend

Note

You can click the legends below the chart to show or hide specific statistics.

Security Information

The Security Information section displays the most recent security information. Recommended

Entry points to Security Center documentation

The Help Center section provides the entry points to Security Center documentation. The documentation covers the following content: introduction, tutorials, features, alert handling methods, and best practices. You can click a topic title to view the topic. Help Center