January 20, 2024June 23, 2024 Defender for Cloud – Part 0: Introduction (The blog series) Microsoft Defender for Cloud is my favourite tool / solution inside Azure portal. I use it often and also do private preview testing inside Microsoft Cloud Security programs. (You can join here).This is based on my experiences but there also some quotes from MS learn and other materials from youtube etc. Images are mainly from Azure portal and from MS Learn.These posts will be update by the time I get more content.Let’s start. Introduction to Defender for Cloud Microsoft Defender for Cloud (later MDC) is a solution in (Microsoft Azure Cloud) for cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection (CWP) that finds weak spots across your cloud configuration, helps strengthen the overall security posture of your environment, and can protect workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments from evolving threats. There’s an interactive guide of how to manage cloud security posture with MDC. (opens in new tab). Defender for Cloud fills three vital needs as you manage the security of your resources and workloads in the cloud and on-premises: Defender for Cloud secure score continually assesses your security posture so you can track new security opportunities and precisely report on the progress of your security efforts.Defender for Cloud recommendations secures your workloads with step-by-step actions that protect your workloads from known security risks.Defender for Cloud alerts defends your workloads in real-time so you can react immediately and prevent security events from developing. With Defender for Cloud you can Strengthen the security posture of your cloud resourcesProtect cloud and hybrid workloads against threatsProtect your resources and track your security progressProtect all of your resources under one roofDefend your Azure-native resourcesDefend your on-premises resourcesDefend resources running on other clouds (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform)Close vulnerabilities before they get exploitedEnforce your security policy from the top downExtend Defender for Cloud with Defender plans and external monitoring Integrations in Defender for Cloud Defender for Cloud has integrations at least following solutions:Defender for EndpointPurview (data security section)SentinelExternal Attack Surface Management (EASM)Azure ArcAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformGitHubAzure DevOpsGitLab The parts of the MDC blog series View all the parts of the MDC blog series:Part 0: Microsoft Defender for Cloud – The EPIC blog series – introduction (this post)Part 1: Getting started Part 2: The Asset Inventory Part 3: Security posturePart 4: Security recommendationsPart 5: Security alertsPart 6: Attack path analysisPart 7: Cloud security explorerPart 8: WorkbooksPart 9: Regulatory compliancePart 10: Workload protectionsPart 11: Data securityPart 12: Firewall managerPart 13: DevOps securityPart 14: Environment settingsPart 14A: Defender PlansPart 14B: Security PoliciesPart 14C: Email notificationsPart 14D: Workflow automationPart 14E: Continuous ExportPart 15: Security solutionsPart 16: Community Share on Social Media x facebook linkedinwhatsapp Discover more from Jussi Metso Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe DEFENDER FOR CLOUD
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