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**Security Advisory in [Azure Service Health](https://azure.microsoft.com/get-started/azure-portal/service-health/)**
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Service health notifications are published by Azure and contain information about the resources under your subscription. You can review these security advisories in the Service Health experience in the Azure portal and get notified about security advisories via your preferred channel by setting up Service Health alerts for this type of notification. You can create [Activity Log alerts](../service-health/alerts-activity-log-service-notifications-portal.md) on Service notifications by using the Azure portal.
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Service Health notifications are published by Azure and contain information about the resources under your subscription. You can review these security advisories in the Service Health experience in the Azure portal and get notified about security advisories via your preferred channel by setting up Service Health alerts for this type of notification. You can create [Activity Log alerts](../service-health/alerts-activity-log-service-notifications-portal.md) on Service Health notifications by using the Azure portal.
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>Depending on your requirements, you can configure various alerts to use the same [action group](../azure-monitor/alerts/action-groups.md) or different action groups. Action group types include sending a voice call, SMS, or email. You can also trigger various types of automated actions.
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**Email Notification**
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If a security issue requires direct action taken by subscription admins/owners, or critical and sensitive resource information needs to be shared, we send an email notification to subscription admins/owners.
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We send an email notification to subscription admins/owners when:
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1. A security issue requires direct action by subscription admins/owners.
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2. Critical and sensitive resource information needs to be shared.
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>You should ensure that there is a **contactable email address** as the [subscription administrator or subscription owner](../cost-management-billing/manage/add-change-subscription-administrator.md). This email address is used for security issues that would have impact at the subscription level.
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### Security issues affecting your Azure tenant workloads
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We typically communicate security-related information affecting your Azure **tenant** workloads via **Email Notification**. We send an email notification to Global admin and Technical Contacts
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We communicate security-related information affecting your Azure **tenant** workloads via Email and/or Azure Service Health Notifications. We send notifications to Global Admin(s), Technical Contacts, and Security Admin(s).
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>You should ensure that there is a **contactable email address** entered for your organization's [Global Admin](../active-directory/roles/permissions-reference.md) and [Technical contact](../active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-properties-area.md) on your tenant. This email address is used for security issues that would have impact at the tenant level.
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> [!Note]
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> You should ensure that there is a **contactable email address** entered for your organization's [Global Admin](../active-directory/roles/permissions-reference.md), [Technical contact](../active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-properties-area.md), and [security admin](/azure/defender-for-cloud/permissions) on your tenant. This email address is used for security issues that would have impact at the tenant level.
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As of June 2024, we've enhanced the visibility of our Azure Service Health security communications. Typically, notifications are issued at the level for which they are architected. If a service is architected at the subscription level, we send communications at the subscription level. If the service is architected at the tenant level (such as Entra), we send communications at the tenant level. However, when Microsoft determines a security event is particularly impactful AND architected at the subscription level, we will also proactively issue additional communications at the tenant level to guarantee the broadest possible awareness. 
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## Three steps to help you stay informed about Azure security issues
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Depending on your requirements, you can configure various alerts to use the same [action group](../azure-monitor/alerts/action-groups.md) or different action groups. Action group types include sending a voice call, SMS, or email. You can also trigger various types of automated actions.
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There's an important difference between Service Health security advisories and [Microsoft Defender for Cloud](../defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-introduction.md) security notifications. Security advisories in Service Health provide notifications dealing with platform vulnerabilities and security and privacy breaches at the subscription and tenant level, while security notifications in Microsoft Defender for Cloud communicate vulnerabilities that pertain to affected individual Azure resources.
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There's an important difference between Service Health security advisories and [Microsoft Defender for Cloud](../defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-introduction.md) security notifications. Security advisories in Service Health provide notifications dealing with platform vulnerabilities and security and privacy breaches at the subscription and tenant level. Security notifications in Microsoft Defender for Cloud communicate vulnerabilities that pertain to affected individual Azure resources.
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More information about the Azure Service Health notifications can be found at: [What are Azure service health notifications? - Azure Service Health | Microsoft Learn](../service-health/service-health-notifications-properties.md)

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