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Microsoft Defender for CloudFormerly Azure Security Center
Overview
What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) for Azure, on-premises, and multicloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources.
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What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) for Azure, on-premises, and multicloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources.
- Defender for Cloud secure score continually assesses security posture so as to enable users to track new security opportunities and precisely report on the progress of security efforts.
- Defender for Cloud recommendations secures workloads with step-by-step actions that protect workloads from known security risks.
- Defender for Cloud alerts defends workloads in real-time so users can react immediately and prevent security events from developing.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Features
- Supported: Reduces risk with contextual security posture management
- Supported: Helps prevent, detect, and respond quickly to threats
- Supported: Unifies security management for DevOps
- Supported: Offers comprehensive cloud-native security in Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Defender for APIs security capabilities, now in public preview.
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Secure multicloud and hybrid environments
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) for Azure, on-premises, and multicloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources.
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud are common alternatives for Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
The most common users of Microsoft Defender for Cloud are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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February 01, 2023
Best in the market
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Secure Score
- Security recommendations
- Monitoring Agent
May 17, 2022
Robust security analytics.
- Integration with Microsoft (DCU, MSRC).
- Good threat monitoring system.
May 06, 2022
Azure's greatest cloud security tool
- Tracking of Events.
- The suggestions are also vital. It pushes us to analyze why we are getting that advice, which is clearly important when creating a security policy.
- It's preventive, and it keeps security front of mind for the staff.
May 06, 2022
Defender for Cloud is a worthwhile investment of your teams time with excellent documentation.
- Gamification of 'security score' actually works really well for us or team building, if you can believe that!
- Hardening resources can be really easy.
- Integration with our existing Microsoft products.
- User interface, once you understand it, is easy to use.
May 06, 2022
Great software, Easy To Use
- Recommendations for improvement
- MFA
- Named Locations
- Conditional Access
May 06, 2022
ASC will keep you secure.
- Reporting
- Hunting
- Automation
May 06, 2022
Azure Security Center means blue skies ahead
- Aggregation of Data
- Correlation of Data
- Tracking of Events
- Workflow
May 05, 2022
Defender for Cloud (Formerly Azure Security Center): An Essential Tool for Any Azure Cloud Environment
- Security alerts are my go-to in the mornings. Those are the most important for me and my team.
- The inventory overview is also something I use heavily to monitor the activity of my team and ensure they are following internal policies and tends to be a leading indicator for cost overruns, etc.
- The recommendations are also very important. Though we don't always follow them, it forces us to understand why we are getting that recommendation which is obviously a key factor in formulating security policies.
May 05, 2022
The best cloud security tool for Azure
- Compliance
- Alerts
- Posture Management
- Workload protection
May 05, 2022
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Alerts and Threat Detection
- Vulnerability Management
- Secure Score
May 05, 2022
Azure Security Center provides intuitive and effective cloud security posture management
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Multiple compliance standards and frameworks so we can demonstrate, for example, that our US-based virtual machines comply with US standards while EU virtual machines comply with EU standards
- Compliance standards are kept up to date automatically without us needing to do that work and maintain the different versions of the standards
- Intuitive user interface that can be easily navigated and understood by auditors and internal risk teams
- Comprehensive information and metadata are provided for each finding to allow us to understand the problem, its impact as well as any recommended remediation steps we can take
- Integrated vulnerability scanner powered by industry leader Qualys