Microsoft Azure Security Center
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For Agents
Configure Azure Security Center settings, manage Defender pricing tiers, set security contacts, and read compliance and threat protection state for an Azure subscription.
Use for: Configure auto-provisioning of the Microsoft Monitoring Agent for a subscription, Switch the Defender pricing tier on a subscription to Standard, Register a security contact email for Security Center alerts, List all compliance assessment results for my Azure subscription
Not supported: Does not handle SIEM incident triage, identity protection, or key vault secrets — use for Azure Security Center configuration and compliance reads only.
Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Security Center, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Azure Security Center API exposes the Microsoft.Security resource provider so agents can configure cloud security posture, manage pricing tiers for Defender plans, set security contacts, and inspect compliance state across an Azure subscription. It covers auto-provisioning settings, workspace settings, advanced threat protection, and compliance results that map to regulatory frameworks. The API is scoped at the subscription, resource group, or resource level and is used to read and tune the controls that protect Azure workloads.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Security Center to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Security Center, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Security Center API.
Configure auto-provisioning of the monitoring agent across an Azure subscription
Switch Defender pricing tiers between Standard and Free for resource types
Register security contacts that receive alert and recommendation emails
Set the Log Analytics workspace where Security Center stores collected data
Enable advanced threat protection on storage accounts and SQL resources
Read compliance assessment results against built-in regulatory standards
Inspect Security Center settings such as MCAS and WDATP integration toggles
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Security Center API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Defender Plan Cost Control
Engineering and FinOps teams use the Security Center API to audit which Microsoft Defender plans are enabled across subscriptions and downgrade Standard tier plans on workloads that no longer require advanced protection. The pricings endpoint reports the current tier per resource type and lets a caller flip it back to Free, which directly removes the per-node Defender charge from the next bill cycle.
Read the pricings list for the subscription, find any resource type set to Standard, and update VirtualMachines pricing to Free if no production workloads are tagged on it
Security Contact Registration
Compliance teams register security contact details so that Azure Security Center sends alert notifications and security advisor emails to the right inbox. The securityContacts endpoint accepts an email address, phone number, and notification preference flags so an agent can keep contact information current across many subscriptions during onboarding or org changes.
Create a securityContacts entry for the subscription with a target email, alertNotifications enabled, and alertsToAdmins enabled
Regulatory Compliance Reporting
Security analysts pull compliance assessment data from the API to feed dashboards and audit reports rather than screenshotting the Azure portal. The compliances endpoint returns scored results against the built-in regulatory standards Security Center evaluates, giving an agent a structured view of passed, failed, and skipped controls per assessment date.
List compliances for the subscription scope and return the most recent assessment with its compliant resource percentage
AI Agent Cloud Security Tuning
An agent built on Jentic uses the Security Center API to keep cloud accounts hardened without a human running through portal blades. The agent can verify auto-provisioning is on, confirm a workspace setting points at the central Log Analytics workspace, and ensure advanced threat protection is enabled on every storage account, all from a single tool call sequence discovered through Jentic search.
Search Jentic for configure azure security center auto provisioning, load the schema, and call autoProvisioningSettings to set autoProvision to On
Key Endpoints
29 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for security center, keeping it validated and agent-ready.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/pricings
List Defender pricing tiers configured on the subscription
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/pricings/{pricingName}
Update the Defender pricing tier for a resource type
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/securityContacts/{securityContactName}
Create or update a security contact
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/autoProvisioningSettings/{settingName}
Set auto-provisioning of the monitoring agent
GET
/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.Security/compliances
List compliance assessment results for a scope
PUT
/{resourceId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/advancedThreatProtectionSettings/{settingName}
Enable advanced threat protection on a resource
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/pricings
List Defender pricing tiers configured on the subscription
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/pricings/{pricingName}
Update the Defender pricing tier for a resource type
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/securityContacts/{securityContactName}
Create or update a security contact
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/autoProvisioningSettings/{settingName}
Set auto-provisioning of the monitoring agent
GET
/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.Security/compliances
List compliance assessment results for a scope
PUT
/{resourceId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/advancedThreatProtectionSettings/{settingName}
Enable advanced threat protection on a resource
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
Azure AD client credentials and service principal secrets are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive short-lived bearer tokens scoped to user_impersonation — raw Azure secrets never enter the agent context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as configure azure defender pricing or enable advanced threat protection and Jentic returns the matching Microsoft.Security operation with its full input schema, so the agent can call the right ARM endpoint without reading the Azure REST docs.
Time to first call
Direct integration with the Microsoft.Security ARM endpoints: 1-3 days for Azure AD app registration, token exchange, and ARM error handling. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load schema, execute.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Security Center API through Jentic.
Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Security Center?
Microsoft Azure does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Security Center via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.
What authentication does the Security Center API use?
Security Center uses Azure AD OAuth 2.0 with the implicit flow against https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize and the user_impersonation scope. When called through Jentic, your Azure AD client secret or service principal credentials are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and never enter the agent context — Jentic mints scoped access tokens for each call.
Can I change the Defender pricing tier with the Security Center API?
Yes. Send a PUT to /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/pricings/{pricingName} with the desired tier (Standard or Free) for the resource type. The same endpoint exists at resource group scope when you need a tier override on a specific scope.
Does the Security Center API return compliance results?
Yes. GET /{scope}/providers/Microsoft.Security/compliances lists assessment results for a subscription or resource group, and /{scope}/providers/Microsoft.Security/compliances/{complianceName} returns a single assessment with its compliant resource percentages and per-segment scores.
What are the rate limits for the Security Center API?
Azure Resource Manager applies subscription-level throttling — typically 12,000 read and 1,200 write requests per hour per principal — and surfaces remaining quota in the x-ms-ratelimit-remaining-subscription-reads and x-ms-ratelimit-remaining-subscription-writes response headers. Jentic surfaces those headers verbatim so an agent can back off when quota is low.
How do I enable advanced threat protection on a storage account through Jentic?
Search Jentic for enable advanced threat protection on azure resource, load the operation schema for PUT /{resourceId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/advancedThreatProtectionSettings/{settingName}, then execute it with the storage account resource ID and isEnabled set to true. The full search, load, and execute flow is in the Jentic Python SDK after pip install jentic.
Is the Security Center API free to call?
The API itself has no per-call charge — costs come from the underlying Defender plans. Switching a pricings entry to Standard enables paid Defender features billed per protected node or resource, while Free leaves the basic Security Center features active at no cost.
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