Tag: #cloudsecurity

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…

Let’s start with the Defender for Cloud’s UI. There are a lot of different functions which we are going to walk through.

This blog 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.