What's Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Sep 05, 2023

What's Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) with a set of security measures and practices designed to protect cloud-based applications from various cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Defender for Cloud combines the capabilities of:
A development security operations (DevSecOps) solution that unifies security management at the code level across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments
A cloud security posture management (CSPM) solution that surfaces actions that you can take to prevent breaches
A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) with specific protections for servers, containers, storage, databases, and other workloads

Get better code-to-cloud protection

Strengthen your security posture, enable protection against threats, and reduce risk throughout the cloud application lifecycle across multicloud and hybrid environments

The diagram above shows the user scenarios Defender for Cloud covers: unifying DevOps security management, strengthening cloud security posture with contextual insights, and protecting cloud workloads against modern threats. The bottom of the diagram showcases the hybrid and multicloud platforms Defender for Cloud supports, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and on-premises workloads.

Defender for Cloud capabilities

  • Security posture monitoring
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Attack-path analysis
  • Workload protection
  • Vulnerability scanning
  • DevOps posture visibility
  • Infrastructure-as-code security
  • Code security guidance

Microsoft Defender makes it possible to monitor the security of multiple workloads running in Azure Cloud

  • Microsoft Defender for Servers
  • Microsoft Defender for Storage
  • Microsoft Defender for SQL
  • Microsoft Defender for Containers
  • Microsoft Defender for App Service
  • Microsoft Defender for Key Vault
  • Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager
  • Microsoft Defender for DNS
  • Microsoft Defender for open-source relational databases
  • Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB (Preview)agraph
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