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Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

by Yuri Diogenes, Tom Janetscheck
October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 58m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 9

Accessing Defender for Cloud from APIs

Although Microsoft Defender for Cloud has its own dashboard where you can visualize all security alerts, there are some specific scenarios in which you may want to consume the alert via API. This is a common scenario among organizations that want to build their own dashboards and programmatically manipulate all alerts.

In this chapter, you will learn how to leverage the built-in Defender for Cloud Representational State Transfer (REST) API and the Intelligent Security Graph API to retrieve information using HTTP requests.

Understanding REST API

Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs are service endpoints that support sets of HTTP operations (methods), which provide create, retrieve, update, ...

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