Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Formerly Azure Security Center

My Experience with Defender for Cloud has been very good, and it has significantly strengthened our cloud security and security methodologies. It has exceptional capabilities to protect our cloud infrastructure and assets. Its advanced threat detection features have efficiently safeguarded our assets against cyber threats. Giving us peace of mind knowing that our cloud assets are well protected. It stands out for having a comprehensive and proactive approach to cloud Security. It also strengthens the security of our company employees and users. With the help of Microsoft Defender, our security reaches new heights.

We use Microsoft Defender for Azure File Shares and Virtual Machines. It helps to protect our data and safeguard Information. We also use It for safeguarding SQL Databases backed up on Azure. It mostly address the security perspective and provides me alerts If any malicious activity is detected. We also use It for App Services(Web Apps) It scans through and provides If any malicious website is accessed or any component is malfunctioning.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is our go to cloud security solution for all our cloud workloads. The CSPM feature also works wonders and the flexibility to implement it on selected resources also provides cost efficiency despite being quite reasonable. It also includes Defender for endpoint which will cover all basis for your VM's antivirus and ASR needs. Along with adaptive application control.

The primary purpose of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is to secure cloud resources and infrastructure. Here's how it's usually used:

• It enables real-time monitoring and threat detection for cloud resources hosted on platforms such as Azure, AWS, and GCP. We as an organization use it to safeguard our cloud assets from a variety of security risks.
• The product offers real-time alerts and notifications for potential security incidents, allowing organizations to respond quickly to mitigate threats.
• Defender for Cloud addresses the critical need for securing cloud resources, especially for organizations migrating to the cloud or maintaining a hybrid cloud environment.
• Our organization use it to assess and manage compliance with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and more.
  

The only term that answers all the three questions above is assessing the security posture of a cloud environment. A typical cloud environment can have a wide variety of resources which needs to go through an assessment process to make sure that the configurations of the resources are well tuned to be not vulnerable and weak enough for a cyberattack. Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) makes our job easier by automating this task and generating security recommendations. It excels further by providing the associated remediations and impacts for the security recommendations.

Defender for Cloud is being used as a tool on one side to give insights in the security posture (CSPM) of all the workloads, have inventory of all resource, be able to query very quickly for specific resources and the specifics of those. On the other hand it is used a protection tool (CWPP) to protect the workloads in the Azure platform. It is capable to detect malicious behavior on the resources that are protected and actively alert on that.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers a simpler way to view vulnerabilities in our cloud platform. Its real-time asset discovery allows us to inform the application owners where to view their up-to-date vulnerability information. This assist the application owners to not only see their real-time vulnerabilities, but to verify if their patching was successful. This not only reduces the risk to our company but also saves the company time. With its easy navigation to view vulnerabilities, compared to other cloud providers platforms, this has greatly enhanced our ability to discover and remediate vulnerabilities in a timely manner.

It is the best cloud security solutions offered by Microsoft which we are using in our organization to protects cloud environment which hosted on Microsoft Azure.
Scope : To protect cloud resources hosted on Microsoft Azure including Azure VM, databases, storage account and web applications.
Business Problems Addressed as below:
Threat Detection and response : It helps in detecting the attack such as malware infections, unauthorized access and provides alerts and then automated responses to mitigate the risks.
Identity and Access management : Helps in protecting user identities and access to azure resources.
Security Configuration management : Identify the misconfiguration that might exposes the vulnerabilities and provides recommendation.

We mainly use it for Cloud Apps detections and investigations. Tool solves the problem for easy log management, detections and alerts for whole enterprise.

There are many business problems that Microsoft Defender solves, such as cloud workload protection, security, and many other compliance stuff. We use it to defend against threats like malware and ransomware on our cloud workloads and also to meet our compliance requirements, such as PCI, DSS, and many others from the business perspective.

Secure Cloud Applications, and we use it to protect Cloud Workloads. We also use it in a DLP capacity to protect cloud workspaces.

We use Microsoft Defender for implementing DevSecOps solutions for secure code development and security operations for one of the biggest retail companies acquired by Amazon. Defender for Cloud helps in making sure we implement the best possible security baselines and controls for building a secure application. In addition, a free CSPM solution is a great addition to the security toolset.

We use this for antivirus on our PCs.

Integrated with Azure AD & MS O365 makes it easy to use and manage security. Reliable product which protects us from malware & ransomware.

We use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect our hybrid environment from security risks as well as help us remediate any potential issues

I don't think that we really use it internally, but we have customers and clients that use it and we just go and help them with security assessments or just go through and help them with the configuration or deployment of it. For the most part, just helps with the security of their Azure Microsoft 365 environment.

Searching for activity, activity logs, and user analytics for detections.

Whenever we are taking a look at cloud solutions that end up touching against our Microsoft side infrastructure, I don't know if they use it for all of it, but at very least for our Microsoft side infrastructure that interacts with other cloud solutions, we'll use it as sort of our defense endpoint between those aspects of the cloud and our internal infrastructure.

So we use a lot of Microsoft products for suspender, for Quad. We use it for email and some of the SaaS applications that we have.

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.

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.

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.