{"id":13865,"date":"2024-04-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/post\/need-to-know-about-azure-security-center_portal\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T12:41:21","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-microsoft-defender-for-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/blog\/what-you-need-to-know-about-microsoft-defender-for-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need to Know About Microsoft Defender for Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"
Towards the end of 2021, Microsoft brought its Azure Security Center and Azure Defender products under the new umbrella of Microsoft Defender for Cloud<\/a>. It did this to further support, natively, its security management of multicloud environments and better demonstrate its integrated cloud platform security capabilities.<\/p>\n This enhancement built on Azure Security Center\u2019s maturation into a market-leading Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution since its birth in 2016 \u2013 a status to which Forrester attested<\/a> in determining that ASC had delivered a 219 percent ROI over three years and a payback in fewer than six months.<\/p>\n Now, with its unified Azure components, Defender for Cloud is a comprehensive security solution<\/a> that delivers high-visibility-and-control security management and threat protection for cloud workloads, Azure-managed services, on-premises environments, and other cloud platforms, such as GCP and AWS.<\/strong><\/p>\n The hybrid environments it safeguards include databases, virtual machines, serverless resources, and containers, and its oversight extends to vulnerability, compliance, identity, access, and event management, as well as threat intelligence.<\/p>\n Its real-time threat detection and response is refined through artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) and machine-learning proficiencies<\/a> that let it continuously grasp and, over time, apply lessons from security events. Its design allows integrations with a broad range of third-party solutions, such as Microsoft Sentinel or comparable incident-management tools.<\/p>\n Defender for Cloud can do all of this because it\u2019s designed to be agile, vigilant, and eyes on everything. It can readily undertake multiple-cloud-platform security monitoring and management because it has a unified, ever-present view of the entire cloud security deployment and a high degree of scalability and flexibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n It simplifies and establishes compliance with regulatory standards through automated compliance assessments and uninterrupted compliance monitoring and reporting.<\/p>\n Cloud Security Posture Management<\/a>\u00a0capabilities in Defender for Cloud yield recommendations describing actions to secure your cloud and on-premises resources.<\/p>\n Centralized policy management provides recommendations to identify the resource configurations that violate your security policy so you can define the security conditions you want<\/a>. Users can monitor the security baseline, which applies guidance from the benchmark, and subsequently find Azure policy definitions in the regulatory compliance section of the Defender for Cloud portal page.<\/p>\n The baseline list features pertinent Azure Security conditions so that you can measure your compliance with the benchmark controls and recommendations. Microsoft\u2019s built-in cloud security benchmark standard subsequently applies security principles<\/a> containing detailed technical implementation guidance for Azure and other cloud providers.<\/strong><\/p>\n The secure score tool aggregates security findings based on the recommendations into a single score to quickly show you how secure you are at any time. The more security remedies implemented, the higher the score and the lower the identified risk level. This is how you can view the secure score dashboard<\/a>, which shows the score as a percentage value and includes the underlying values:<\/p>\nComprehensive Cloud Security Monitoring, Management and Protection<\/h2>\n
Cloud Security Recommendations for Action<\/h2>\n