Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Formerly Azure Security Center

It is been used as a continuous security posture management tool. It is been helping our resources by Assessing them continuously and providing the needed recommendations to make it more secure throughout. It basically solved the overhead of monitoring resources manually. Microsoft Defender for Cloud made it so easy to monitor them also it shows the secure score of the current environment which gives the overview of current security status.

Azure Security Center is the central go-to point for us in terms of security relating to our cloud migration. We are still semi-cloud based, and with Azure Security Center being able to cover both on-prem and cloud, Azure Security Center is an ideal solution for us and we don't feel the need to look elsewhere at third party solutions.

We have a faster response to vulnerable data threats, today we are with a new security expansion process in more systems. Projects are important for the company, for this reason we have Azure Security Center and guarantee safe monitoring, personalized security metrics, integration with more Microsoft products, simple incident alerts, it is not the simplest software of all, but it is the that has always given us more security.

We use it to manage our Microsoft 365 workloads for our clients. We make use of it's user management features, especially the password complexity and multi-factor authentication features.

In the past, we had a number of security solutions that did not communicate with one other, and we often had no idea what the other one was doing. Using Azure Security Center, we can analyze, track, and address threats in our ecosystem from a single console. To provide complete security, we must be able to look into events and compare them across many products and providers.

We use Azure Security Center (now called Microsoft Defender for Cloud) for its security management across multiple clouds. It gives us a great overview of where security gaps are with easy-to-understand remediation or single-click automation fixes in some cases. The reason we went with this product over others is that we are already using most of the Microsoft stack and this compliments it.

We use Azure Security Center mainly around our use of Azure AD and the enforcement of rules/policies around our Office 365 environment. We have implemented conditional access rules on our AD and implemented other suggestions that the security center has made to us based on current settings. It's great how it shows you the warnings based on severity so you can get an idea of priority before you start making any changes. We are in the process of launching more services in Azure which I'm sure will see us back in the Security Center looking for advice again.

We have recently migrated our entire infrastructure to the Azure cloud. I needed a comprehensive tool to secure our environment that didn't require a dedicated security staff. Azure Security Center fits the bill.

We had multiple security products which did not talk to each other, and often didn't know what the other one was doing. Azure Security Center brings security events from many different places into one console where we can investigate, hunt, track and remediate within our ecosystem. That we can dig into events and cross-reference across multiple products and vendors is required to do comprehensive security.

Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center) is one of my day-to-day "bases of operation". I.e., it's one of the key dashboard-type utilities I use daily to track the health of my infrastructure and network. There is a lot of sprawl now, given that I am a hybrid and am in the process of migrating up to Azure. For example, I have some virtual machines, VPNs, gateways, tunnels, VNets, SQL databases, etc., that all require monitoring but are very difficult to do in a time-conscious manner and in a way that gives a whole picture. By centralizing everything (at the subscription level), Defender for Cloud really simplifies that task by giving me the issues I need to know about in one shot.

We currently use Azure Security Center to secure our Azure environment and ensure that everything is operating within our internal requirements. Azure Security Center gives us direct visibility into all of the events and recommendations for our cloud servers. We also utilize Azure Security Center to get security posture ratings and vulnerability assessments on our endpoints in our Azure environments.

The name of this tool has now changed to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, but the functionality remains the same. It is a must-have for your Cloud workloads; Including IaaS and PaaS usage. It combines Security best practices, Vulnerability management, and Threat Detection and Response. Secure Score is a nice way of keeping track of your overall security posture. Can be used in other clouds like AWS and GCP.

We utilize Azure Security Center to understand what services we have provisioned in the cloud as well as detect any possible security oversights that were made while creating these cloud resources; Azure Security Center helps us with our cloud security posture management initiative as it allows us to quickly assess compliance of our cloud environment with various industry-standard compliance frameworks e.g. ISO27001, SOC2, NIST and others which our business partners recognize