{"id":48843,"date":"2024-01-24T13:11:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/americas-partner-blog\/?p=48843"},"modified":"2024-01-29T18:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T02:38:43","slug":"help-your-customers-secure-their-cloud-workloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/americas-partner-blog\/2024\/01\/24\/help-your-customers-secure-their-cloud-workloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Help your customers secure their cloud workloads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As businesses shift their operations from on-premises to the cloud, security has become a top priority. Cloud workloads<\/strong> are the applications, data, and other IT assets that run on cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Securing cloud workloads is essential to preventing unauthorized access, data breaches, cyberattacks, and compliance violations that could compromise the performance, availability, and integrity of your cloud services. Let\u2019s explore what you can do to help protect your customers\u2019 cloud environments.<\/p>\n

Minimize the risks with a cloud workload protection platform<\/h3>\n

A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP)<\/a> is a cloud security solution that helps protect cloud workloads\u2014offering unified cloud workload protection across multiple providers. By using a CWPP, your customers can leverage the benefits of cloud computing while reducing the risks and challenges of cloud workload security.<\/p>\n

According to a report by Wiz<\/a>, a cloud security company, 50 percent of the public cloud environments they analyzed had at least one critical vulnerability associated with unsecured APIs. Examples of vulnerabilities associated with unsecured APIs include suboptimal access controls, weak authentication protocols, wrong rate limits, and accidental exposure. These oversights can leave the interfaces vulnerable to malicious activities, so it\u2019s important to secure cloud workloads by using a CWPP that can monitor and remediate API-related issues in near real-time.<\/p>\n

Why Microsoft Defender for Cloud?<\/h3>\n

For many, a CWPP is part of a larger cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP<\/a>). A CNAPP combines the workload protection tools from a CWPP along with cloud security posture management (CSPM<\/a>) solutions, which focus on the accounts associated with cloud applications.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Defender for Cloud<\/a> is a CSPM and CWPP designed to protect your customers\u2019 cloud environments. Among other benefits, Microsoft Defender for Cloud can help your customers:<\/p>\n