Security Center

Name: Security Center API
Brand: Security Center
Availability: InStock

★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentSecurityComplianceoauth229 EndpointsREST

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.

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.

Install Jentic One Beta (Self-Hosted)

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 | sh

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 instance

Jentic 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

Set the Log Analytics workspace where Security Center stores collected data

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View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Security Center, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

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.

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

Why though 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.

Complementary

Security Insights (Azure Sentinel)

Azure Sentinel SIEM that consumes the alerts Security Center generates

Choose Security Insights when the agent needs to investigate, triage, or hunt across security incidents rather than tune the underlying Defender configuration

Complementary

Service Map

Maps server processes and dependencies, often used alongside Security Center workspace data

Use Service Map when the agent needs process and connection topology rather than security configuration state

Alternative

AWS Security Hub

AWS-native cloud security posture and compliance aggregator

Use AWS Security Hub when the workload is in AWS rather than Azure

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.