What is Defender for Cloud?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) solution. It continuously assesses, protects, and defends your cloud resources on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Key Features
- Secure Score: Quantitative measurement of your security posture, with proactive recommendations to improve your score.
- Regulatory Compliance: Built-in compliance dashboards for ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, NIST, and KVKK.
- Threat Protection: Advanced threat detection and alerting for VMs, containers, databases, and storage.
- Multi-Cloud Support: Unified management for Azure, AWS, and GCP resources from a single pane of glass.
How It Works
Defender for Cloud integrates with Azure Policy and Log Analytics to continuously monitor workloads. It uses Microsoft Threat Intelligence to detect anomalous behavior and generates prioritized alerts. Resources are scanned against CIS Benchmarks and cloud-specific security baselines.
Defender Plans
- Defender for Servers: Vulnerability assessment, just-in-time VM access, adaptive application controls.
- Defender for Containers: Container image scanning, runtime protection, Kubernetes admission control.
- Defender for Databases: SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, and MariaDB anomaly detection.
- Defender for Storage: Malware scanning, sensitive data discovery, activity monitoring.
Why CloudSpark?
CloudSpark delivers end-to-end security consulting—from Defender for Cloud deployment and Secure Score optimization to custom compliance policies and 24/7 SOC support.
