Category: DEFENDER FOR CLOUD

Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides Regulatory Compliance capabilities to help organizations assess and maintain compliance with industry standards, frameworks, and regulatory requirements. It continuously monitors cloud resources and provides insights into security posture, ensuring alignment with compliance benchmarks.

Workbooks provide a flexible canvas for data analysis and the creation of rich visual reports within the Azure portal. They allow you to tap into multiple data sources from across Azure and combine them into unified interactive experiences. Workbooks let you combine multiple kinds of visualizations and analyses, making them great for freeform exploration.

The Cloud Security Explorer allows you to run graph-based queries and proactively identify security risks in your cloud environment. You can query effective exposure to internet, permisisons, vulnerabilities, potential lateral movement and much more. Your security team can create and run different queries for different scenarios

Defender for Cloud Attack path analysis addresses security issues that pose immediate threats and have the greatest potential for exploitation in your environment. Defender for Cloud analyzes which security issues are part of potential attack paths that attackers could use to breach your environment.

Defender for Cloud helps you to detect and prevent threats to your hybrid cloud environment. When a threat is detected, Defender for Cloud raises security alerts.

On this security alerts page, you can triage your alerts, investigate the findings, and quickly respond manually or with predefined automated workflows.

Resources and workloads protected by Microsoft Defender for Cloud are assessed against built-in and custom security standards enabled in your Azure subscriptions, AWS accounts, and GCP projects. Based on those assessments, security recommendations provide practical steps to remediate security issues, and improve security posture.

Properly managing security posture in public cloud environments is challenging due to lack of awareness and resource constraints. The post introduces Microsoft Defender for Cloud, highlighting its Security Posture feature, which assists with governance, risk assessment, and security management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, thereby enhancing overall asset security.

Table of Contents Asset Inventory The asset inventory page  shows the security posture of the…

Table of Contents Getting started with Defender for Cloud When you first time open Microsoft…

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