Policy: Azure > SQL > Server > Advanced Data Security

Define the advanced data security settings required for Azure > SQL > Server.

Advanced data security for SQL Server includes functionality for surfacing and mitigating potential database vulnerabilities and detecting anomalous activities that could indicate a threat to your server. The Advanced data security package provides administrators with a single go-to location for discovering and classifying data, assessing and addressing potential database vulnerabilities, and visibility into anomalous and potentially malicious activity that is taking place.

Advanced data security can be defined for a specific database or as a default server policy. A server policy applies to all existing and newly created databases on the server. Azure recommends to enable only server-level data security and leave the database-level data security disabled for all databases.

The Advanced data security control compares the vulnerability assessment and threat protection settings against the advanced data security policies for the resource (Azue > SQL > Server > Advanced Data Security > *), raises an alarm, and takes the defined enforcement action.