Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Learn about the basics of Defender for Cloud and its features.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a comprehensive cloud-native security solution that protects organizations from cyber threats. It provides advanced threat protection across different workloads, including SaaS applications, email, and endpoints running on public clouds like Azure and AWS. The solution delivers this protection using cutting-edge technologies such as behavioral analysis, machine learning algorithms, and artificial intelligence.
The benefits of using Defender for Cloud are listed below:
Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides advanced real-time threat detection and response capabilities through machine learning models and behavioral analytics.
It integrates with other Microsoft security solutions, such as Azure Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Defender.
It offers an intuitive management console that simplifies security operations for IT teams.
It provides organizations visibility across their entire infrastructure, including multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
Features of Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s features covers the two broad pillars of cloud security:
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM): This addresses security concerns and enhances our security posture overall. The posture management features of Defender for Cloud include the following:
Hardening advice—to assist us in swiftly and effectively improving our security.
Visibility—to assist us in comprehending our existing security position.
Defender for Cloud continuously evaluates our resources, subscriptions, and organization for security issues and displays our security posture in the secure score, an aggregated score of the security findings that tells us our current security situation ...