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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security across the full lifecycle, from development to runtime.
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud new capabilities announced at Ignite 2022

Now get comprehensive, cloud-native protections from development to runtime a multicloud environments with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Secure multicloud and hybrid environments

Strengthen security posture, protect workloads against modern threats, and help develop secure applications.

Reduce risk with contextual security posture management

Assess multicloud and hybrid cloud security in real time and improve posture by prioritizing the most critical risk with context-aware cloud security.

Help prevent, detect, and respond quickly to modern threats

Strengthen protection against evolving attacks with a comprehensive solution across multicloud and hybrid workloads.

Unify security management for DevOps

Empower security teams with unified DevOps security management across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments to help keep software secure from the start.

Help protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security from development to runtime.

Unified cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP)

Strengthen security posture, enable protection against threats, and reduce risk throughout the cloud application lifecycle across multicloud and hybrid environments.

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Defender for Cloud capabilities

A security posture in Defender for Cloud.

Visualize and improve security posture proactively

Get free continuous assessment, built-in benchmarks, and recommendations to improve your cloud security posture in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

Prioritize critical risks with contextual threat analysis

Discover high-priority risks with attack path analysis. Get contextual threat data from cloud security graph queries to help prioritize remediation.

Help protect workloads comprehensively

Gain broad coverage to secure workloads with insights from industry-leading security intelligence across virtual machines, containers, databases, and storage.

Efficiently scan with agentless or agent-based approach

Get agentless and agent-based vulnerability scanning for agility and comprehensive workload protection.

Unify visibility for DevOps security posture

Gain visibility into DevOps inventory and the security posture of application code and configurations across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments.

Accelerate remediation of critical issues in code

Prioritize and provide remediation guidance natively in the developer tools based on comprehensive contextual insights from development to runtime.

Secure configurations throughout the development lifecycle

Enable security of infrastructure-as-code templates and container images to minimize cloud misconfigurations reaching production environments.

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Get cloud-security benchmark mapped to industry frameworks

Follow best practices for multicloud security compliance with controls mapped to major regulatory industry benchmarks by default.

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Integrated threat protection with SIEM and XDR

Combine the breadth of a security information and event management (SIEM) solution with the depth of extended detection and response (XDR) to fight against attacks that take advantage of today’s diverse multicloud, multiple-platform environments. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a key component of the SIEM and XDR solution from Microsoft.

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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Defender Cloud Security Posture Management

Strengthen posture across multicloud and hybrid environments with contextual security.

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Defender for DevOps

Get unified DevOps security management across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments.

Documentation and training for Microsoft Defender for Cloud 

Datasheet

Microsoft Defender for Cloud datasheet

Strengthen your security posture, enable protection against modern threats, and help develop secure applications.

Interactive guide

Microsoft Defender for Cloud key scenarios

Explore cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, and development security operation scenarios.

Technical validation

Protection for hybrid and multicloud environments

Review independent validation of the technical capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

 

Documentation

Defender for DevOps Topics

Empower security teams with unified DevOps security management across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments to help keep software secure from the start.

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  • [1] Forrester and Forrester Wave are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc.
  • [2] The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021, Allie Mellen, October 2021.3 Cser, Andras; Maxim, Merritt; Fish, Shannon; Dostie, Peggy.
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