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Get integrated protection for your multicloud apps and resources.

Security is complex. We can help you simplify it.

Managing multiple standalone security solutions can get complicated. Learn how consolidating security vendors can help you reduce costs by up to 60 percent, close coverage gaps, and prevent even the most sophisticated attacks.

Help protect your multicloud resources, workloads, and apps

Safeguard your infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) resources across multicloud and hybrid environments.

Strengthen your cloud security posture

Optimize the configuration of cloud services with extensive assessment tools.

Defend against evolving threats

Help protect cloud workloads and apps from threats with leading security research and threat intelligence.

Control access to critical cloud apps and resources

Enforce real-time access controls and permissions management using built-in risk assessments and contextual information.

Help secure every step of the development lifecycle

Safeguard the entire app development, deployment, and operations lifecycle directly within the standard developer workflow.

End-to-end protection for your cloud estate

Strengthen your security posture and protect cloud workloads with a unified platform, deep signal intelligence, and streamlined administration.

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Cloud security products

Get comprehensive protection for your apps, services, and resources across multiple cloud environments.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Bolster security across your multicloud, hybrid environment with cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection (CWP).

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Discover, manage, govern access, and enable threat protection across your SaaS apps.

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GitHub Advanced Security

Build, deploy, and operate more secure code and apps in the cloud.

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Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

Discover, remediate, and monitor permission risks for any identity or resource with a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.

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Azure Network Security

Strengthen security from the edge to the cloud with cloud-native network security based on Zero Trust.

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Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management

Understand your security posture inside and outside the firewall.

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Watch Microsoft cloud security products in action

Explore how Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Network Security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps help you strengthen your security posture and defend against threats across your cloud environments.

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Industry recognition

Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.

Forrester.

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.1

Forrester.

Forrester XDR Wave

Microsoft Defender is named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021.2 3

More on cloud security products

e-Book

Integrated protection across your clouds

Learn how to bolster security across your multicloud resources, apps, and data with solutions designed to work together.

Documentation

Cloud security posture management concepts

Learn how to use security policies and initiatives to strengthen your security posture.

Documentation

Cloud workload protection concepts

Discover how to use continuous monitoring and assessment to identify misconfigurations and stay ahead of threats.

News

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps announcements

Explore the latest capabilities and tools in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

Protect everything

Make your future more secure. Explore your security options today.

  • [1] The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure Security Center, A Forrester Total Economic Impact Study commissioned by Microsoft, February, 2021.
  • [2] Forrester and Forrester Wave are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc.
  • [3] The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021, Allie Mellen, October 2021.

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