Microsoft Defender for Cloud – UW-Milwaukee Cloud Computing

The methods we use to protect ourselves, identify threats, and react to them have undergone a significant development. We and the assailants are no longer playing cat and mouse. Threat actors now have a wide range of alternatives to attack our long-standing attitude and systems thanks to technological improvements and complexity.

It’s time to comprehend how we may use contemporary technology to defend against the invaders, but before we do that, we must be certain of the “What.”

What is Microsoft defender for cloud?

The cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection (CWP) solution Microsoft Defender for Cloud identifies security gaps in your cloud configuration, improves the overall security posture of your environment, and shields workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments from evolving threats.

Defender for Cloud secure score continually assesses your security posture so you can track new security opportunities and precisely report on the progress of your security efforts.

Defender for Cloud recommendations secures your workloads with step-by-step actions that protect your workloads from known security risks.
Defender for Cloud alerts defends your workloads in real-time so you can react immediately and prevent security events from developing.

The Microsoft defender for cloud covers two features: Cloud Workload Protection platform (CWPP) and Cloud security posture management (CSPM)

Let me give you a small glance at CWPP and CSPM:

–CSPM: Posture management helps you secure the cloud by effectively improving your security and continually assesses your resources, subscriptions and security issues. The advantage is that it shows the “secure score” that gives the aggregated score of the security findings that tell you the security situation in cloud: the higher score the lowest risk level.

–CWP: cloud offers security alerts that are powered by Microsoft threat intelligence. It also protects your workloads and is specific to the types of resources in your subscriptions.

Now, you must be asking why we should use it?

Enabling the protection option in cloud accounts is necessary to properly protect our data. As hackers are increasingly attempting to access our data, we need to take precautions to safeguard it. Microsoft Defender for the cloud can do this for us.

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