Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Focus on your most critical risk across multicloud environments with contextual cloud security posture management.
Defender Cloud Security Posture Management is now Generally Available
Get comprehensive cloud-native security in Defender for Cloud, now with the general availability of Defender CSPM and new antimalware and data security capabilities.
Reduce critical risk with contextual CSPM
Gain full visibility, contextual insights, and built-in workflows to remediate the most critical risks across clouds.
Get comprehensive monitoring of your multicloud security posture
Get continuous security assessment of your resources running across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and on-premises.
Prioritize risks with integrated, contextual insights
Identify your most critical risks with integrated insights from SOC, DevOps, Defender External Attack Surface Management, Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, and Azure Purview, all in a single view.
Maximize protection with agentless and agent-based scanning
Get continuous, real-time monitoring with agentless vulnerability scanning and gain deeper protection from built-in agents.
Ensure compliance with built-in multicloud benchmarks
Follow best practices for multicloud security compliance with controls mapped to major regulatory industry benchmarks (such as CIS, PCI, and NIST) in a central dashboard.
Reduce risk by knowing the context
Gain full visibility into your security and compliance posture—and understand the most important risks with Defender CSPM.
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Key Defender Cloud Security Posture Management capabilities
Measure your security posture with secure score
Gain in-depth and continuous assessment of the security of your cloud resources running in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Enable comprehensive visibility and contextual insights
Get connected insights generated by the cloud security graph spanning different workloads, such as DevOps, Data sensitivity, External Attack Surface Management (EASM), and Identity.
Proactively mitigate risk with proactive attack path analysis
Use graph-based attack path analysis to explore risk and surface contextual threat data to help prioritize remediation and save mitigation time.
Manage security policies and simplify compliance
Centrally manage security policies across your cloud workloads.Follow best practices with benchmarks for multicloud security compliance.
Implement security governance
Define and manage security governance rules at scale.Assign and track responsibility with a central view to improve organizational efficiency.
Data Security Enhancements in Posture Management
Get contextual insights into data security in posture management.Reduce overall sensitive data exposure by understanding where the blind spots are.
Forrester XDR Wave
Microsoft Defender is named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021. 1,2
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