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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