Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security across the full lifecycle, from development to runtime.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Strengthen security posture, protect workloads against modern threats, and help develop 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
Understand your security posture inside and outside the firewall.
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 for DevOps
Get unified DevOps security management across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments.
Documentation and training for Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud datasheet
Strengthen your security posture, enable protection against modern threats, and help develop secure applications.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud key scenarios
Explore cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, and development security operation scenarios.
Protection for hybrid and multicloud environments
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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