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Cloud workload protection solutions

Detect and respond to cyberattacks in real time to protect your multicloud, hybrid, and on-premises workloads.

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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.

Comprehensive cloud workload protection

Discover vulnerabilities, uncover cyberthreats, and automate your response centrally in Defender for Cloud.

Protect your multicloud and on-premises environment

Help protect all layers of your multicloud and on-premises environment, including critical workloads such as servers, databases, containers, storage, APIs, and service layers.

Respond to cyberthreats in real time

Prioritize your response with correlated alerts and a centralized view that integrates with your unified security operations platform.  

Reduce your cyberattack surface

Identify and remediate vulnerabilities before they’re exploited and automatically help protect new workloads as soon as they’re deployed.

Accelerate investigations

Stay ahead of cross-platform cyberattacks using connected investigation and hunting with Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence.

Expand your coverage

Detect and respond to cyberthreats across a wide range of workload types running in Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and on-premises with Defender for Cloud.

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Cloud workload protection plans in Defender for Cloud

Customize your security with the right cloud workload protection plan for your resources in the Defender for Cloud portal.

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Defender for Servers

Get advanced protection for your Windows and Linux machines—whether they’re on-premises or spread across multiple clouds, including Azure, AWS, and GCP.

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Defender for Storage

Help protect your Azure Storage resources and scale your response to cyberthreats with centralized controls, contextualized data sensitivity insights, and near-real-time malware scanning.

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Defender for Containers

Increase your visibility into on-premises and multicloud container deployments and effectively respond to cyberthreats with out-of-the-box protections.

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Database protection

Easily enable cyberthreat protection for all database types in your environment, including SQL, open-source relational databases, and Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.

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Defender for APIs

Detect and respond to Azure API cyberthreats with machine learning–powered detections for anomalous and suspicious API use. Get comprehensive coverage for the Open Worldwide Application Security Project® (OWASP) API security top 10 cyberthreats, data exfiltration, and volumetric cyberattacks.

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API Security 101: What You Need to Know and How to Get Started

Learn why API security is so important right now and get best practices for protecting your APIs from evolving cyberthreats with Defender for Cloud.

Industry recognition

Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.

Forrester

The Forrester Wave: IPNS

Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security (IPNS), Q2 2023.1, 2

Frost & Sullivan

Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms

Microsoft is named a Leader in the Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms 2023 report.3

Forrester

The Forrester New Wave: XDR

Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection And Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021.14

See how customers safeguard their cloud workloads

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Blog

Integrate code-to-cloud security

Learn how to implement code-to-cloud security with the cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) capabilities in Defender for Cloud.

Documentation

Explore cloud workload protection concepts

See how security alerts and notifications work in Defender for Cloud to help prevent, detect, and respond to cyberthreats.

News

Stay up to date

Get Defender for Cloud news, configuration guidance, product tutorials, and tips.

Guide

Review Defender for Cloud key scenarios

Learn how to detect cyberthreats and protect multicloud, hybrid, and on-premises workloads in this interactive guide

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  • [1] Forrester, Forrester Wave, and Forrester New Wave are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc.
  • [2] The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security (IPNS), Q2 2023, Andras Cser with Merritt Maxim, Caroline Provost, and Christine Turley, April 2023.
  • [3] Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2023, Anh Tien Vu, August 2023.
  • [4] The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection And Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021, Allie Mellen with Joseph Blankenship, Alexis Tatro, and Peggy Dostie, October 2021.

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