Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Help protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security across the full lifecycle, from development to runtime.
New capabilities designed for the era of AI
Innovate boldly with built-in security during the application lifecycle. Secure AI, data, and compute workloads in your multicloud environment with new, comprehensive cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) capabilities.
Secure multicloud and hybrid environments
Strengthen your security posture, protect workloads against modern cyberthreats, and develop more secure applications.
Reduce risk with contextual security posture management
Get full visibility and continuous monitoring across your multicloud and hybrid environments, prioritize your most critical risks with integrated contextual, insights, and remediate at scale from code to cloud with built-in workflows.
Help prevent, detect, and respond quickly to cyberthreats
Gain comprehensive multicloud protection across infrastructure, apps, and data with cloud-native cyberthreat detection and response.
Unify security management for DevOps
Empower security teams with unified DevOps security management across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments to help keep cloud applications secure from the start.
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive CNAPP security from development to runtime.
Get better code-to-cloud protection
Strengthen your security posture, enable protection against cyberthreats, 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, Google Cloud, and DevOps Pipeline.
Get compliance benchmarks mapped to industry standards
Follow best practices for multicloud security compliance with controls mapped to major regulatory industry standards by default.
Prioritize critical risks with contextual cyberthreat analysis
Discover high-priority risks using cyberattack-path analysis. Get contextual cyberthreat data from cloud security graph queries to help prioritize remediation.
Help protect workloads from malware and other cyberthreats
Gain broad workload security coverage supported by leading security intelligence across virtual machines, containers, databases, and storage to help prevent malware and other cyberthreats in unified XDR.
Efficiently scan with agentless or agent-based approaches
Get agentless and agent-based vulnerability scanning for agility and comprehensive workload protection.
Unify visibility of DevOps security posture
Gain visibility into DevOps inventory and the security posture of application code and configurations across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments.
Help secure configurations throughout the development lifecycle
Enable security of infrastructure-as-code templates and container images to minimize the number of cloud misconfigurations that reach production environments.
Accelerate remediation of critical issues in code
Prioritize and provide remediation guidance natively in the developer tools with comprehensive contextual insights from code to cloud.
Get comprehensive cloud security
Help safeguard your resources across multicloud and hybrid environments. Learn how 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.
Defender for Cloud
Strengthen your security posture, help protect workloads against modern cyberthreats, and develop more 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
Better understand your security posture inside and outside the firewall.
Unified security operations platform
Secure your digital estate with the only security operations (SecOps) platform that unifies the full capabilities of extended detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM).
Protect Multicloud and Hybrid Environments from Code to Cloud
Learn how to reduce your risk of cyberattack with Defender for Cloud.
Security operations maturity self-assessment tool
Find out if your security operations center is prepared to detect, respond to, and recover from cyberthreats.
Industry recognition
Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.
Industry-leading cloud security posture management
Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management is a leader in the 2023 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on CSPM.3
Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms
Microsoft is named a leader in the Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms 2023 report.4
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Defender Cloud Security Posture Management
Strengthen posture across multicloud and hybrid environments with contextual security.
Defender for Cloud documentation and training
Integrate code-to-cloud security in a CNAPP
Learn how to implement code-to-cloud security with the cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) capabilities in Defender for Cloud.
Review Defender for Cloud key scenarios
Explore cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, and development security operations scenarios in an interactive guide.
Stay up to date
Get Defender for Cloud news, configuration guidance, product tutorials, and tips.
Key challenges in building a CNAPP
Learn about the top challenges from security professionals in building a CNAPP, and get actionable insights.
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- [1] Forrester, Forrester Wave, Total Economic Impact, and Forrester New Wave are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc.
- [2] The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security, Q2 2023, Andras Cser with Merritt Maxim, Caroline Provost, and Christine Turley, April 2023.
- [3] KuppingerCole Analysts AG Leadership Compass, Cloud Security Posture Management, Mike Small, July 27, 2023.
- [4] Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2023, Anh Tien Vu, August 2023.
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