Tag: #cloudsecurity

The Data and AI security overview section displays your cloud data and AI estate for each cloud. It includes all data and AI resources, categorized into storage assets, managed databases, hosted databases (IaaS), and AI services.

Advanced Threat Protection provides a new layer of security, which enables customers to detect and respond to potential threats as they occur by providing security alerts on anomalous activities.

Cloud Workload Protection in Microsoft Defender for Cloud helps protect various cloud resources such as virtual machines, containers, databases, and applications from security threats, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations.

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.