

Provides hardening recommendations based on any identified security misconfigurations and weaknesses. You can also apply recommendations, and score based on the AWS Foundational Security Best practices standards. When you've enabled the enhanced security features, you can customize the standards used to assess your compliance, and add other regulations (such as NIST and Azure CIS) or organization-specific security requirements. Use the score to understand your security posture, and the compliance dashboard to review your compliance with the built-in benchmark. Generates a secure score for your subscriptions based on an assessment of your connected resources compared with the guidance in Azure Security Benchmark. Visibility - to help you understand your current security situationĭefender for Cloud continually assesses your resources, subscriptions, and organization for security issues and shows your security posture in secure score, an aggregated score of the security findings that tells you, at a glance, your current security situation: the higher the score, the lower the identified risk level.Īs soon as you open Defender for Cloud for the first time, Defender for Cloud:.Hardening guidance - to help you efficiently and effectively improve your security.In Defender for Cloud, the posture management features provide: CSPM - Remediate security issues and watch your security posture improve Microsoft Defender for Cloud's features covers the two broad pillars of cloud security: Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). Protect your resources and track your security progress Defender for Cloud alerts defends your workloads in real-time so you can react immediately and prevent security events from developing.įor a step-by-step walkthrough of Defender for Cloud, check out this interactive tutorial.Defender for Cloud recommendations secures your workloads with step-by-step actions that protect your workloads from known security risks.Defender for Cloud secure score continually assesses your security posture so you can track new security opportunities and precisely report on the progress of your security efforts.Defender for Cloud fills three vital needs as you manage the security of your resources and workloads in the cloud and on-premises: Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) for all of your Azure, on-premises, and multicloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources.
