Cloud security is a top priority, with continued adoption and growth of cloud usage, ensuring your data and applications are secure is critical. This is where Microsoft Defender for Cloud comes in. Defender for Cloud offers full application protection across any cloud environment not just Microsoft Azure.
In this article we introduce Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that is made up of security measures and practices that are designed to protect cloud-based applications from various cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Defender for Cloud combines the capabilities of:
- A development security operations (DevSecOps) solution that unifies security management at the code level across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments
- A cloud security posture management (CSPM) solution that surfaces actions that you can take to prevent breaches
- A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) with specific protections for servers, containers, storage, databases, and other workloads
The Microsoft 365 Defender portal helps security teams investigate attacks across cloud resources, devices, and identities. Microsoft 365 Defender provides an overview of attacks, including suspicious and malicious events that occur in cloud environments. Microsoft 365 Defender accomplishes this goal by correlating all alerts and incidents, including cloud alerts and incidents.
Secure cloud applications
Defender for Cloud helps you to incorporate good security practices early during the software development process, or DevSecOps. You can protect your code management environments and your code pipelines and get insights into your development environment security posture from a single location. Defender for Cloud empowers security teams to manage DevOps security across multi-pipeline environments.
Today’s applications require security awareness at the code, infrastructure, and runtime levels to make sure that deployed applications are hardened against attacks.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud pricing
The pricing for Defender for Cloud depends on what services you are looking to secure. If you are looking at a server, database, container, storage, APIs or service layers. The cost is per service per hour starting from as little as £4 per server per month.
Defender for Cloud is a great step to improving your cyber security in the cloud. Defender for Cloud offers a range of security services to secure your DevOps, security management and cloud workloads. To learn more about Defender for Cloud visit our cyber security services or contact us today.
