Azure Security MCP Server Integration

The Microsoft Security Center API, officially provided by the Microsoft Security resource provider, serves as the foundational programmatic interface for interacting with Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center). Its core purpose is to enable security professionals, DevOps engineers, and automated systems to query, manage, and orchestrate security posture, threat protection, and compliance across hybrid cloud workloads. The API provides comprehensive capabilities to retrieve and analyze security alerts, discover and inventory assets such as connected security solutions and allowed network connections, manage just-in-time (JIT) network access policies, and assess the security state of resources across Azure subscriptions and specific geographical locations. Typical enterprise use cases span security operations center (SOC) automation, continuous compliance auditing, threat investigation, infrastructure-as-code security validation, and the integration of cloud security signals into broader SIEM and SOAR platforms.