Overview
End-to-end hybrid and multicloud security
- Prevent vulnerabilities, minimize cloud misconfigurations, deploy secure infrastructure-as-code templates, and secure your software supply chain.
- Continuously improve your security posture with expanded visibility and attack path analysis.
- Quickly detect and respond to cyberthreats across cloud workloads, data, and APIs in a unified security operations center experience.
Market statistics
Behind the rise in cloud-based cyberattacks
Siloed security solutions make it challenging to protect an ever-expanding cloud environment.
Products
Explore Microsoft cloud security products
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with end-to-end security across the full application lifecycle.
Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management
Mitigate cloud risks with comprehensive visibility, contextual insights, and integrated workflows.
GitHub Advanced Security
Empower developers and security teams to work together to accelerate the delivery of secure software.
Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management
See your business the way a cyberattacker does with visibility across your resources and multicloud environment.
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Manage permissions of any identity across your entire environment.
Microsoft Security Exposure Management
Reduce risk to your most critical assets with end-to-end visibility of the cyberthreat landscape.
Microsoft Defender XDR
Ger unified cyberthreat detection and response across your entire environment with an extended detection and response (XDR) solution.
Scenarios
One solution for all your clouds
Reduce complexity and gain visibility with a unified CNAPP built to work across your hybrid environment.
Secure your software supply chain and prevent vulnerabilities and secrets in code.
Prevent cloud misconfigurations from reaching your production environment with secure infrastructure-as-code templates and container images.
Prevent future attacks using attack path analysis across cloud workloads, APIs, and datastores in multicloud environments.
Prevent, detect, and respond to cyberthreats across servers, containers, service layers, databases, APIs, identities, devices, and apps—whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Quickly detect and respond to cloud threats in a unified, end-to-end security operations center experience.
Industry recognition
Recognized by top industry analyst firms
- Learn why Frost & Sullivan named Microsoft a leader in the CNAPP market.4
- Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security, Q2 2023.5
- See why, KuppingerCole rated Microsoft an Overall Leader in Cloud Security Posture Management.6
- Microsoft named an Overall Leader in CNAPP7
Customer stories
What customers say about Microsoft cloud security
“The three things that keep me up at night are phishing, ransomware, and cloud misconfigurations . . . We have Defender for Cloud to point out configuration weaknesses and suggest changes.”
Resources
Stay up to date on cloud security
e-book
CNAPP implementation from planning to deployment
Dive deep into multicloud security and explore tips and best practices for deploying and operationalizing a CNAPP solution in your organization.
Report
2024 State of Multicloud Security Report
Learn strategies for protecting your organization from the latest multicloud security risks.
Research study
SANS 2023 Multicloud Survey
Get insights and strategies for securing a multicloud environment based on a survey of 245 IT professionals.
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- [1]Tanner Luxner, Cloud computing trends and statistics: Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report, April 5, 2023
- [2]Mathew Davis, Microsoft Cloud Security Priorities and Practices Research, Emerald Research Group, March 2022
- [3]“Executive summary,” in Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, IBM Security, 2023, p 1.
- [4]Anhtien Vu, Frost RadarTM: Cloud-Native Protection Platforms, 2023, Frost & Sullivan, October 2023
- [5]The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security, Q2 2023, Andras Cser, Merritt Maxim, Caroline Provost, Christine Turley, April 25, 2023
- [6]KuppingerCole Analysts AG Leadership Compass, Cloud Security Posture Management, Mike Small, July 27, 2023
- [7]KuppingerCole Analysts AG Leadership Compass, Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform, Mike Small, Alexei Balaganski, January 31, 2023
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