Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Chapter 5

Strengthening your Security Posture

During the last couple of years, supply chain attacks, such as Solorigate, reinforced both the importance of having a vulnerability-management system and the fact that many computers are not fully updated and do not use the most secure configuration. As you already learned in Chapter 1, “Threat landscape,” the COVID-19 pandemic even amplified these observations and presented new challenges. What all these challenges and observations have in common is that security hygiene today is one of the most important topics when it comes to protecting IT resources. A security assessment is critical to identifying the current security state of your assets and what you need to do to improve it. Microsoft Defender ...