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.
- 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.
- Get continuous, real-time monitoring with agentless vulnerability scanning and gain deeper visibility from built-in agents.
- 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.
Capabilities
Key capabilities
Reduce your risk with Defender Cloud Security Posture Management.
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.
Gain insights from the cloud security graph across workloads like DevOps, sensitive data, APIs, identity, and the external attack surface.
Centrally manage security policies across your cloud workloads and APIs and follow best practices with benchmarks for multicloud security compliance.
Define and manage security governance rules at scale. Assign and track responsibility with a central view to improve organizational efficiency.
Get posture insights into AI models and agents, layer on sensitive data signals, and reduce AI risks by identifying vulnerabilities and attack paths.
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INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Industry research and recognition
Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.
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Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms
Microsoft named a leader in the CNAPP market by Frost & Sullivan.1 -
IDC MarketScape Report: CNAPP
Microsoft named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment.2 -
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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- [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]“IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment” by Philip Bues and Frank Dickson, June 2025, IDC Doc #: US53549925.
- [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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