Security Center provides all-around security checks and protection capabilities for your assets that are deployed on Alibaba Cloud, multi-cloud environments, data centers, and container environments. To meet requirements in different scenarios, Security Center provides the following editions: Basic, Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, Ultimate, and Value-added Plan. This topic describes the features that are provided by Security Center and the differences between the features of the editions.
The Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions encapsulate different features that are provided by Security Center to meet the security requirements in various scenarios. Basic features cannot be separately purchased and are available only after you purchase a specific edition of Security Center. Basic features include virus detection and removal and proactive defense for containers.
Value-added features can be used after you purchase or enable the features. Value-added features include anti-ransomware, web tamper proofing, and agentless detection.
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Pricing
Subscription billable items
Billable item | Anti-virus | Advanced | Enterprise | Ultimate | Value-added Plan | |
Basic service fees | USD 1 per core-month | USD 9.5 per server-month | USD 23.5 per server-month | USD 23.5 per server-month + USD 1 per core-month | N/A | |
Value-added service fees | Vulnerability fixing | USD 0.3 per fix-month (The minimum quota that you can purchase is 20.) | An unlimited quota is provided, and no additional fees are generated. | USD 0.3 per fix-month (The minimum quota that you can purchase is 20.) | ||
Application protection | You can purchase a larger quota at a lower unit price.
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Web tamper proofing | USD 165 per server-month | |||||
Threat analysis and response |
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Anti-ransomware | USD 0.045 per GB-month | |||||
Log analysis | USD 0.1 per GB-month | Not supported. | ||||
Container image scan | Not supported. | USD 0.1 per image-month | ||||
Cloud honeypot | USD 333.33 per probe-month (The minimum quota that you can purchase is 20.) Note You are charged for cloud honeypot based on the number of probes. | |||||
Configuration assessment | Based on the consumed quota for configuration assessment (The total number of scans, verifications, and successful fixes for each check performed on an instance), a tiered pricing model is applied. The following list describes the specific pricing details (The minimum quota that you can purchase is 15,000, with increments of 55,000):
Note An instance refers to the instance of a specific network device or an application, such as an Object Storage Service (OSS) bucket or an ECS security group. For more information, see Overview of configuration assessment. | |||||
SDK for malicious file detection | USD 1.5 per 10,000 detections-month (The minimum quota that you can purchase is 100,000.) Note You are charged based on the number of times that files are detected. | |||||
Subscription duration | Monthly or yearly subscription is supported. |
If you use Security Center Basic, you can purchase basic protection features or value-added features that are supported by other editions of Security Center. If you do not need to purchase basic protection features, you can purchase the Value-added Plan edition to separately purchase value-added features.
If you purchased the threat analysis and response feature before April 26, 2024, you are charged based on the original price of USD 0.44 per GB-month for log storage capacity.
On July 21, 2022, the basic service fees for Security Center Ultimate are changed from USD 3 per core-month to USD 23.5 per server-month + USD 1 per core-month.
If you purchased Security Center Ultimate before July 21, 2022, you are charged based on the original prices when you renew, upgrade, or downgrade Security Center.
Starting from July 21, 2022, you are charged the basic service fees for Security Center Ultimate in scenarios when you purchase Security Center Ultimate or upgrade Security Center to the Ultimate edition. Basic service fees = USD 23.5 per server-month + USD 1 per core-month.
Pay-as-you-go billable items
Vulnerability fixing: After you purchase the vulnerability fixing feature by using the pay-as-you-go billing method, you are charged USD 0.3 per fix by calendar day. For more information, see Purchase the vulnerability fixing feature.
Agentless detection: After you purchase the agentless detection feature by using the pay-as-you-go billing method, you are charged USD 0.03 per GB of scanned data by calendar day. For more information, see Use the agentless detection feature.
Configuration assessment: After you purchase the configuration assessment feature by using the pay-as-you-go billing method, you are charged based on the consumed quota for configuration assessment (including scan counts, verification counts, and successful fix counts) in the tiered pricing mode by calendar day. For more information, see Purchase and authorization.
Consumed quota for configuration assessment
Price (USD/time)
0~100,000
0.0009
100,001~500,000
0.0007
Greater than 500,000
0.00045
Overview
Basic features
Feature | Description | Basic | Anti-virus | Advanced | Enterprise | Ultimate |
Security Center evaluates your assets and assigns a security score that provides a reference on the security of your assets. |
Assets
Basic features
Feature | Description | Basic | Anti-virus | Advanced | Enterprise | Ultimate |
Security Center provides an overview of your cloud assets, and allows you to view network topology, security score, and security risks. Security Center also provides a unified portal where you can manage your cloud assets. | ||||||
Security Center provides a GUI that simplifies the management of your assets such as clusters, containers, images, and applications. Security Center also displays the network topology of your container assets. This gives you a birds-eye view of the security status of your containers and the network connections between them. | ||||||
Security Center displays security information about each protected server. The information includes the risk status, group, region, and virtual private cloud (VPC). | ||||||
Security Center collects the following types of server fingerprints: accounts, ports, and processes. | ||||||
After you perform a quick check task, Security Center performs checks such as vulnerability detection and baseline checks on specified servers based on your configurations. | ||||||
Security Center provides the security statistics of your clusters, pods, containers, and images. | ||||||
Security Center displays the security information about cloud services. The information includes at-risk cloud services and their service types. The service types include Server Load Balancer (SLB) and ApsaraDB RDS. | ||||||
Security Center displays security information about each protected website. The information includes the root domain, subdomains, risk status, and alerts. |
Value-added features
Security Center provides the severless asset protection feature that supports the alert detection, vulnerability scanning, and baseline checks for Elastic Container Instance (ECI) and Serverless App Engine (SAE) instances created by using ACK managed clusters, ACK dedicated clusters, ACK Serverless clusters, or Platform for AI. You can use this feature after you enable the it based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. For more information, see Use the serverless asset protection feature.
Risk Governance
Basic features
Feature | Description | Basic | Anti-virus | Advanced | Enterprise | Ultimate | |
Security Center supports full scanning and analysis of your resources on Alibaba Cloud, such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances, gateways, system components, and ports. This way, Security Center can identify the security risks and vulnerabilities of your resources that are exposed on the Internet. This helps you detect and resolve issues at the earliest opportunity and improves the security of your resources. | |||||||
Vulnerabilities | Security Center compares software versions by using the matching engine of Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL). Security Center generates alerts when the Linux software vulnerabilities that are recorded in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database are detected in the current version. | Only automatic detection is supported. | Only automatic detection is supported. | ||||
Security Center supports the automatic fixing of vulnerabilities and automatic creation of snapshots. This allows you to undo fixes by using snapshots. | Required | Required | |||||
Security Center obtains Microsoft updates for Windows operating systems, detects high-risk vulnerabilities, and generates alerts for these vulnerabilities. | Only automatic detection is supported. | Only automatic detection is supported. | |||||
Security Center automatically identifies pre-patches that are used to fix vulnerabilities to prevent failures caused by the lack of the required pre-patches. This allows you to fix Windows vulnerabilities with a few clicks. Security Center also generates alerts for vulnerabilities that require a system restart after the vulnerabilities are fixed. This allows you to fix Windows system vulnerabilities in an efficient manner. | Required | Required | |||||
Security Center monitors web directories, recognizes common website builders, and checks the vulnerability database to identify vulnerabilities in website builders. | Only automatic detection is supported. | Only automatic detection is supported. | |||||
Security Center uses patches developed by Alibaba Cloud to replace and modify source code. This allows you to fix vulnerabilities with a few clicks. | |||||||
Security Center detects urgent vulnerabilities when they are made public. Security Center does not support automatic fixing of urgent vulnerabilities. You must follow the instructions provided by Security Center to manually fix the vulnerabilities. | |||||||
Security Center detects weak passwords for system services and vulnerabilities in system services and applications. | |||||||
Allows you to manually run quick scan tasks on your assets to detect vulnerabilities in real time. | Only urgent vulnerabilities can be detected. | (Application vulnerabilities are not supported.) | (Application vulnerabilities are not supported.) | ||||
Entry point to vulnerabilities that require immediate fixing | Security Center provides a centralized entry point for you to view and fix all vulnerabilities with high priorities. | ||||||
YUM/APT Source Configuration | Security Center allows you to preferentially use YUM or APT sources maintained by Alibaba Cloud to fix vulnerabilities. After you turn on YUM/APT Source Configuration, Security Center automatically selects YUM or APT sources maintained by Alibaba Cloud. This improves the success rate of vulnerability fixing. Note Before you fix a Linux software vulnerability, you must specify a valid YUM or APT source. If you specify an invalid YUM or APT source, the vulnerability fails to be fixed. | ||||||
Security Center dispatches tasks to check server configurations. Security Center generates alerts when configuration risks are detected. Security Center allows you to specify check items, detection intervals, and servers to create custom check policies. Custom check scripts are not supported. Security Center allows you to configure custom weak password rules. Security Center checks the configurations of your cloud services by using the check policy that you specify. Security Center generates alerts when weak passwords are detected. | Only weak passwords can be detected. | ||||||
Security Center performs security checks on the baseline configurations of containers. Security Center also generates alerts for the detected risks. | |||||||
Security Center mitigates risks that are detected from the baseline checks based on the Alibaba Cloud security standards and MLPS standards. | |||||||
Security Center monitors code hosting platforms such as GitHub in real time to detect AccessKey leaks of Alibaba Cloud accounts in source code. |
Value-added features
Feature | Description | How to enable the feature | |
Security Center allows you to fix Linux software vulnerabilities and Windows system vulnerability with a few clicks. | You can use this feature after you purchase a quota for vulnerability fixing or purchase vulnerability fixing based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. Note If you use the Basic, Value-added Plan, or Anti-virus edition, you must purchase a quota for vulnerability fixing or purchase the vulnerability fixing feature. If you use the Advanced, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition, you do not need to purchase the feature. You are provided an unlimited quota to fix vulnerabilities. | ||
Security Center detects configuration errors and security risks on cloud services from the following dimensions: identity and permission management, security risks in Alibaba Cloud services, and compliance risks. This ensures the security of the running environment of your cloud services. | Use one of the following billing methods:
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Security Center provides capabilities such as attack discovery and defense within and outside the cloud. You can create honeypots in VPCs and servers that are protected by Security Center. This protects the servers from attacks that are launched within and outside the cloud and reinforces the security of the servers. | You can use this feature after you purchase a quota for the cloud honeypot feature based on the subscription billing method. | ||
SDK for malicious file detection is supported. The SDK provides the following capabilities:
| You can use this feature after you purchase a quota for SDK for malicious file detection based on the subscription billing method. | ||
Network logs | This type of log records web access, Domain Name System (DNS) resolution, local DNS caches, and network sessions. You can use the logs to identify security threats, such as attack attempts and malicious traffic. This helps meet compliance and audit requirements. | If you use the Enterprise or Ultimate edition of Security Center, you can use this feature after you purchase the log storage capacity for log analysis. | |
Host logs | This type of log records logons, process startups, account snapshots, and DNS requests. You can use the logs to monitor user activities, system events, and application operations on hosts. This helps identify threats and optimize running performance. | If you use the Anti-virus edition of Security Center or higher, you can use this feature after you purchase the log storage capacity for log analysis. Note If you use the Value-added Plan edition, you cannot purchase the log storage capacity for log analysis. | |
Security logs | This type of log records vulnerabilities, baseline risks, alerts, and configuration assessment check results. You can use the logs to observe security trends, improve security policies and defense mechanisms, and identify weak links in systems. |
Detection and Response
Basic features
Feature | Description | Basic | Anti-virus | Advanced | Enterprise | Ultimate | |
Suspicious process | Security Center traces intrusion sources based on real attack-defense scenarios in the cloud and creates a process whitelist. Security Center generates alerts when unauthorized processes or intrusion attacks are detected. Security Center builds approximately 1,000 process patterns for hundreds of processes and compares the processes against these patterns to detect suspicious processes. | ||||||
Webshell | Security Center supports detection of website script files, such as PHP, ASP, and JSP files, based on both servers and networks. Security Center performs the following detection:
| Only some webshells can be detected. | |||||
Security Center also supports webshell detection and removal, which allows you to manually quarantine detected webshell files. Files that are quarantined can be restored within 30 days. | |||||||
Unusual logon | Security Center provides basic detection services. | ||||||
Security Center provides advanced detection services. | |||||||
Sensitive file tampering | Security Center monitors sensitive directories and files, and generates alerts when suspicious read, write, or delete operations are detected. | ||||||
Malicious process (cloud threat detection) | Security Center scans processes on a regular basis, monitors process startups, and detects viruses and trojans by using the cloud threat detection mechanism. You can terminate malicious processes and manually quarantine malicious files with a few clicks in the Security Center console. | ||||||
Suspicious network connection | Security Center monitors connections on servers and networks. Security Center generates alerts when suspicious connections are detected. | ||||||
Other features | Security Center detects unusual disconnections of the Security Center agent. | ||||||
Abnormal account | Security Center detects suspicious accounts that attempt to log on to your system based on user behavior analysis. | ||||||
Intrusion into applications | Security Center detects intrusion into applications, such as SQL Server. | ||||||
Cloud threat detection | Security Center detects unusual use of cloud services based on user behavior analysis. For example, an attacker uses your AccessKey pair to purchase a large number of ECS instances for data mining. | ||||||
Precision defense | Security Center automatically blocks common Internet viruses, such as ransomware, DDoS trojans, mining and trojan programs, malicious programs, webshells, and computer worms. | ||||||
Persistent webshell | Security Center detects persistent webshells on servers. After an attacker gains control over a server, the attacker typically places webshells, such as scripts, processes, and links, to persistently exploit the intrusion. Common persistent webshells include crontab jobs, automatic tasks, and system replacement files. | ||||||
Web application threat detection | Security Center detects intrusion activities that use web applications. | ||||||
Malicious script | Security Center detects malicious scripts on servers. Malicious scripts are classified into file-based scripts and fileless scripts. After an attacker gains control over a server, the attacker uses scripts to carry out the actual attack. For example, the attacker may insert mining programs and webshells, and add administrator accounts to your system. Languages of malicious scripts include Bash, Python, Perl, PowerShell, Batch, and VBScript. | ||||||
Threat detection during container runtime | Security Center detects threats to Container Service for Kubernetes in real time. The threats include viruses and malicious programs in containers or on hosts, intrusion into containers, and container escapes. Security Center also generates alerts for these threats and warnings for high-risk operations. Security Center detects the threats to containers and generates alerts for detected threats. | ||||||
Security Center archives the alerts that are handled earlier than 30 days ago and allows you to download the archived alerts. This facilitates event tracing and audit. | |||||||
Security Center displays the details of web attacks and brute-force attacks on your server. Security Center traces the attacker IP addresses and finds the flaws of the attacks. |
Threat Analysis and Response
Value-added features
The threat analysis and response feature allows you to manage security information and events of multiple cloud services that belong to different cloud accounts, including accounts of Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, and Tencent Cloud. The cloud services include Cloud Firewall and VPC. The feature allows you to focus on events and identify unknown threats. The feature also provides various context and tracing information, and supports quick event handling to improve the event operation efficiency. You can use this feature after you purchase the log storage capacity for threat analysis. For more information about the threat analysis and response feature, see Overview.
Host Protection
Basic features
Feature | Description | Basic | Anti-virus | Advanced | Enterprise | Ultimate |
The security experts of Security Center conduct automated analysis on persistence and attack methods based on a large number of persistent virus samples. Then, the security experts release an engine that can detect and remove viruses based on machine learning results. You can use the engine to detect and remove viruses with a few clicks. | ||||||
The malicious behavior defense feature provides system rules and allows you to create custom defense rules. You can use the rules to enhance the security of your servers. | ||||||
The feature of defense against brute-force attacks allows you to configure a defense rule to protect your servers from brute-force attacks. If the number of logon failures from an IP address to the same server exceeds a specified limit during a specified statistical period, the IP address is blocked. | ||||||
Security Center allows you to specify approved logon locations, IP addresses, time ranges, and accounts to identify unusual logons that may be initiated by attackers. | Only approved logon locations can be specified. | Only approved logon locations can be specified. | ||||
The core file monitoring feature allows you to monitor operations on files in real time, such as accessing, modifying, deleting, and renaming the files. If such operations are detected, Security Center generates alerts. This helps reduce the risk of core files being stolen or tampered with. |
Value-added features
Feature | Description | How to enable the feature |
The agentless detection feature adopts the agentless technology to scan and then detect security risks such as vulnerabilities, malicious files, and baseline risks on ECS instances, precluding the need to install the Security Center agent. | You can use this feature after you enable the agentless detection feature based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. | |
The anti-ransomware feature allows you to back up and restore data on your servers and databases. This protects your servers and databases from ransomware. | You can use this feature after you purchase the anti-ransomware capacity. | |
Security Center monitors website directories and restores maliciously modified files or directories by using backups. Security Center protects websites from malicious modification, trojans, hidden links, and insertion of violence or pornography content. | You can use this feature after you purchase a quota for web tamper proofing. |
Container Protection
Basic features
Feature | Description | Basic | Anti-virus | Advanced | Enterprise | Ultimate |
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This feature can monitor directories and files in containers in real time, and generate alerts or intercept tampering operations when the directories or files are tampered with. This prevents your applications from being inserted with illegal information or malicious code. | ||||||
This feature delivers firewall capabilities to protect containers. If attackers exploit vulnerabilities or malicious images to intrude into clusters, the container firewall feature generates alerts or blocks attacks. | ||||||
Security Center signs trusted container images and verifies the signatures to ensure that only trusted images are deployed. This prevents unauthorized container images from being started and improves asset security. Note Only Kubernetes clusters that are deployed in the China (Hong Kong) region support the image signature feature. | ||||||
Security Center detects image risks in the project building stage on Jenkins and GitHub in an efficient manner and provides solutions to detected image risks. Image risks include high-risk system vulnerabilities, application vulnerabilities, viruses, webshells, execution of malicious scripts, configuration risks, and sensitive data. |
Value-added features
The container image scan feature can manage container images and detect security risks in a comprehensive manner. The risks include high-risk system vulnerabilities, application vulnerabilities, malicious samples, configuration risks, and sensitive data in images. If you use the Advanced, Enterprise or Ultimate edition of Security Center, you can use this feature after you purchase a quota for Container Image Scan. For more information about the container image scan feature, see Overview.
Application Protection
Value-added features
The application protection feature adopts the Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) technology to detect attacks during application runtime, and then block the attacks or generate alerts for the attacks. This helps protect applications. You can use this feature after you purchase a Quota for Application Protection. For more information, see Use the application protection feature.
System Configuration
Basic features
Feature | Description | Basic | Anti-virus | Advanced | Enterprise | Ultimate |
Security Center provides the task management feature. You can run tasks to enable automatic fixing of vulnerabilities in multiple servers at a time. | ||||||
Security Center allows you to configure security reports. After you enable this feature, Security Center sends emails that contain security statistics to the specified recipients. | ||||||
Proactive Defense - Malicious Host Behavior Prevention This feature automatically blocks common network viruses, such as common ransomware, DDoS trojans, mining programs, trojans, malicious programs, webshells, and computer worms. | ||||||
Proactive Defense - Anti-ransomware (Bait Capture) This feature uses bait to capture the new types of ransomware and analyzes the patterns of the new types of ransomware. If risks such as unusual encryption are performed by the new types of ransomware, the system automatically blocks the ransomware to protect your assets. | ||||||
Proactive Defense - Webshell Prevention This feature automatically intercepts suspicious connections that are initiated by attackers by using known webshells. This feature also allows you to manually quarantine related files. | ||||||
Proactive Defense - Malicious Network Behavior Prevention This feature intercepts the abnormal network behavior between your servers and disclosed malicious access sources, which reinforces the security of your servers. | ||||||
Proactive Defense - User Experience Optimization in Proactive Defense If your server unexpectedly shuts down or the defense capability is unavailable, Security Center collects server data by using the kdump service for protection analysis. This enhances the protection capability of Security Center on an ongoing basis. | ||||||
Webshell Detection and Removal Security Center periodically scans web directories to detect webshells and trojans on your servers. | Only some webshells can be detected. | |||||
Adaptive Threat Detection Capability If a high-risk intrusion is detected on your server after the adaptive threat detection feature is enabled, the Security Center agent on your server automatically runs in strict alert mode. This mode helps detect intrusions in a faster manner. | ||||||
Alert modes Security Center supports different alert modes for servers to meet your security requirements in different scenarios. By default, Security Center enables Balanced Mode for all servers that are added to Security Center. | ||||||
Threat Detection on Kubernetes Containers Security Center monitors the status of running containers in a Kubernetes cluster. This allows you to detect security risks and attacker intrusions at the earliest opportunity. Security Center detects the following items:
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Container Escape Prevention The feature of container escape prevention detects high-risk operations from multiple dimensions such as processes, files, and system calls, and establishes protection barriers between containers and hosts. This effectively blocks escape behavior and ensures the runtime security of containers. | ||||||
Agent Protection After you enable the agent protection feature, Security Center automatically intercepts unauthorized agent uninstallation. This feature prevents the agent from being uninstalled by attackers or terminated by other software. | ||||||
Local File Detection Engine The local file detection engine performs security checks on new script files and binary files on your server. If threats are detected, the engine reports alerts. | ||||||
Client Resource Management The feature of client resource management allows you to manually change the running mode of the Security Center agent to limit the amount of resources that the agent can consume. This meets the protection requirements of servers in various scenarios and enhances security. | ||||||
Security Control This feature allows you to configure the IP address whitelist. Requests initiated from IP addresses in the whitelist are directly forwarded to destination servers. This prevents normal network traffic from being blocked. | ||||||
Access Control Resource Access Management (RAM) allows you to create and manage RAM users, such as individuals, system administrators, and application administrators. You can manage RAM user permissions to control access to Alibaba Cloud resources. | ||||||
This feature allows you to install and uninstall the Security Center agent. | ||||||
This feature allows you to add the following types of servers to Security Center: ECS instances that are deployed in VPCs, servers that are deployed in data centers, and servers that are deployed in hybrid clouds and are inaccessible over the Internet. You can also use the feature to manage uplink traffic of the servers. Uplink traffic refers to traffic from servers to Security Center. | ||||||
This feature allows you to add third-party cloud servers and servers in data centers to Security Center for protection and management. | ||||||
This feature allows you to create IDC probes to scan servers and identify the servers that have the Security Center agent installed in a data center. Then, you can synchronize the information about the identified servers to the Assets module of the Security Center console. This way, Security Center can manage the servers in a centralized manner. | ||||||
This feature allows you to configure rule conditions. You can manage servers that meet the specified rule conditions by group or tag in a simple and efficient manner. | ||||||
This feature allows you to configure custom notification methods and alert severities of alert notifications. Security Center sends alert notifications by using text messages, emails, internal messages, or DingTalk chatbots. Note Only the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Security Center support DingTalk chatbots. | (Only specific notification methods are supported.) | |||||
This feature allows you to manage the assets of multiple members in the resource directory of your enterprise. You can monitor the security status of the members in real time. | ||||||
Security Center checks whether your assets comply with classified protection regulations, including those on communication networks, region borders, computing environments, and management centers. Security Center also generates compliance reports. | ||||||
Security Center checks whether your system meets ISO 27001 requirements from aspects such as asset management, access control, cryptography, and operation security. |
Value-added features
The global log filtering feature ensures security, maximizes log storage usage, and improves your operational efficiency. If you use the Anti-virus edition of Security Center or higher, you can use this feature after you purchase the log storage capacity for log analysis and enable the log analysis feature. For more information, see Global log filtering.
Limits on threat detection
Security Center sends alerts in real time when risks are detected. You can manage security alerts, scan for and fix vulnerabilities, analyze attacks, and perform configuration assessment in the Security Center console. Security Center can analyze alerts and trace attacks. This reinforces the security of your assets. To protect your assets against attacks, we recommend that you regularly install the latest security patches on your server, and use other security services together with Security Center, such as Cloud Firewall and Web Application Firewall (WAF).
After you install the Security Center agent on a server, the defense process of Security Center requires a specific period of time to take effect on the server. During this period of time, Security Center cannot block threats such as ransomware and DDoS trojans.
Attacks and viruses are always changing, and actual workloads run in different environments. Therefore, Security Center cannot ensure that all unknown threats are detected in real time. We recommend that you use Security Center features such as alerting, vulnerability detection, baseline check, and configuration assessment to enhance security and prevent intrusions, data thefts, and data damage.