Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Help protect multicloud and hybrid environments from development to runtime with a comprehensive cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP).
Announcing new CNAPP capabilities in Defender for Cloud
Get comprehensive cloud-native security in Defender for Cloud, now with the public preview of Defender for API security capabilities.
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
Get full visibility and continuous monitoring across your multicloud and hybrid environments, prioritize your most critical risks with integrated contextual, data-aware insights, and remediate at scale with built-in workflows.
Help prevent, detect, and respond quickly to modern threats
Gain comprehensive multicloud protection across cloud apps, infrastructure, and data with cloud-native threat detection and response.
Unify security management for DevOps
Empower security teams with unified DevOps security management across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments to help keep cloud applications secure from the start.
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive CNAPP security from development to runtime.
Code-to-cloud protection with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Strengthen security posture, enable protection against threats, and reduce risk throughout the cloud application lifecycle across multicloud and hybrid environments.
Defender for Cloud capabilities
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.
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.
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 from malware and other threats
Gain broad workload security coverage supported by leading security intelligence across virtual machines, containers, databases, and storage to stop malware and other threats.
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.
Help secure configurations throughout the development lifecycle
Enable security of infrastructure-as-code templates and container images to minimize cloud misconfigurations reaching production environments.
Accelerate remediation of critical issues in code
Prioritize and provide remediation guidance natively in the developer tools with comprehensive contextual insights from code to cloud.
Get comprehensive cloud security
Safeguard your resources across multicloud and hybrid environments. Learn more about how Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, Azure Network Security, GitHub Advanced Security, and Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management work together to provide comprehensive cloud security.
Integrated threat protection with SIEM and XDR
Empower your defenders to effectively secure your digital estate by combining extended detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM).
Protect Multicloud and Hybrid Environments from Code to Cloud
Learn how to reduce your risk of attack with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Security operations maturity self-assessment tool
Find out if your security operations center is prepared to detect, respond, and recover from threats.
Industry recognition
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Related products
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Defender Cloud Security Posture Management
Strengthen posture across multicloud and hybrid environments with contextual security.
Defender for DevOps (Preview)
Get unified DevOps security management across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments.
Documentation and training for Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Integrate code-to-cloud security in a CNAPP
Learn how to implement code-to-cloud security with the CNAPP from Microsoft.
Review Microsoft Defender for Cloud key scenarios
Explore cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, and development security operation scenarios.
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Microsoft is developing a full CNAPP
Learn about the CNAPP concept, how the CNAPP offering from Microsoft is evolving, and its place in the context of the wider market for such technology.
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- [2] The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure Security Center, A Forrester Total Economic Impact Study commissioned by Microsoft, February 2021.
- [3] 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.