Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security across the full lifecycle, from development to runtime, with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Announcing new CNAPP capabilities in Defender for Cloud
Get comprehensive cloud-native security in Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Defender for APIs security capabilities, now in public preview.
Secure multicloud and hybrid environments
Strengthen your security posture, protect workloads against modern threats, and develop more 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 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.
Get better code-to-cloud protection
Strengthen your 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 compliance benchmarks mapped to industry standards
Follow best practices for multicloud security compliance with controls mapped to major regulatory industry standards by default.
Prioritize critical risks with contextual threat analysis
Discover high-priority risks using 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 help prevent 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 the number of cloud misconfigurations that reach 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
Help safeguard your resources across multicloud and hybrid environments. Learn how 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.
Defender for Cloud
Strengthen your security posture, help protect workloads against modern threats, and develop more secure applications.
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Discover, remediate, and monitor permission risks for any identity or resource with a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.
Azure network security
Strengthen security from the edge to the cloud with cloud-native network security based on Zero Trust.
GitHub Advanced Security
Build, deploy, and operate more secure code and apps in the cloud.
Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management
Better understand your security posture inside and outside the firewall.
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
Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.
The Forrester Wave: IPNS
Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security (IPNS), Q2 2023.1
Forrester Consulting TEI Study
Microsoft Defender for Cloud delivers 219 percent ROI over three years and a payback of less than six months, according to a study commissioned by Microsoft.2
The Forrester New Wave: XDR
Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021.3
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Related products
Use best-in-class Microsoft security products to help prevent and detect attacks across your organization.
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.
Defender for Cloud documentation and training
Integrate code-to-cloud security in a CNAPP
Learn how to implement code-to-cloud security with the CNAPP capabilities in Defender for Cloud.
Review Defender for Cloud key scenarios
Explore cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, and development security operations scenarios in an interactive guide.
Stay up to date
Get Defender for Cloud news, configuration guidance, product tutorials, and tips.
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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Make your future more secure. Explore your security options today.
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[1]
Forrester, Forrester Wave, Total Economic Impact, and Forrester New Wave are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc.
The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security, Q2 2023, Andras Cser with Merritt Maxim, Caroline Provost, and Christine Turley, April 2023. - [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 with Joseph Blankenship, Alexis Tatro, and Peggy Dostie, October 2021.
