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Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management

Focus on your most critical risks first, across multicloud environments, with contextual cloud security posture management (CSPM).
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OVERVIEW

Reduce critical risks with contextual CSPM

Gain full visibility, contextual insights, and built-in workflows to remediate the most critical risks across clouds with Defender CSPM.
  • Get continuous security assessments of your resources running across DevOps pipelines, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and on-premises.
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  • Gain a unified view of your most critical risks with insights spanning DevOps pipelines, APIs, compute, storage, databases, serverless environments, and AI models and agents.
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  • Get continuous, real-time monitoring with agentless vulnerability scanning and gain deeper visibility from built-in agents.
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  • Centralize and assess your cloud security compliance against industry standards, regulatory frameworks, and multicloud benchmarks, such as CIS, ISO and NIST, with 450+ built-in assessments.
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How it works

Reduce risk by knowing the context

Gain full visibility into your security and compliance posture and understand the most important risks with Defender Cloud Security Posture Management.
Capabilities

Key capabilities

Reduce your risk with Defender Cloud Security Posture Management.
Measure your security posture with Microsoft Secure Score
Gain visibility and contextual insights
Mitigate risks with proactive cyberattack path analysis
Manage security policies and simplify compliance
Implement security governance
Enhance your data and AI security posture
Gain in-depth and continuous assessments of the security of your cloud resources running in DevOps pipelines, Azure, Amazon Web Service, and Google Cloud Platform.
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Defender for Cloud

Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security across the full lifecycle, from code to runtime.
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INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

Industry research and recognition

Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.

  • Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms


    Microsoft named a leader in the CNAPP market by Frost & Sullivan.1
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  • IDC MarketScape Report: CNAPP


    Microsoft named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment.2
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  • The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender for Cloud


    Companies deploying Defender for Cloud achieved a 117 percent ROI over three years and a payback period of less than six months, according to a study commissioned by Microsoft.3
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RESOURCES

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Webinar

Industry trends in cloud security posture management

Learn how to gain greater visibility and strengthen your cloud-native security posture across clouds and development pipelines.
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Demo

Secure your AI applications

Explore how to gain visibility, reduce risk, and safeguard your AI workloads from emerging threats.
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Microsoft Learn

Cloud security posture management concepts

Improve your security posture by better understanding the security policies, initiatives, and recommendations in Defender for Cloud.
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AI, the missing piece of the CNAPP puzzle

Discover how you can tackle complex threats and boost team efficiency using AI and cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) in this CSO article.
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Deploy and secure AI

Find out the steps your organization can take to secure AI apps in this Fast Chat on the Dark Reading website.
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Modern AI security challenges during migration

Learn about the key security elements organizations should prioritize when migrating their AI stack to the cloud in this SC Media article.
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  1. [1]
    Frost & Sullivan, Frost Radar: Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms, 2024: A Benchmarking System to Spark Companies to Action - Innovation That Fuels New Deal Flow and Growth Pipelines, November 2024.
  2. [2]
    “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment” by Philip Bues and Frank Dickson, June 2025, IDC Doc #: US53549925.
  3. [3]
    Forrester Consulting, The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Cost Savings And Business Benefits Enabled By Defender For Cloud, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, August 2024, updated January 2025. Results are for a composite organization based on interviewed customers.

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