Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Foreword

As customers’ path toward the cloud and digital transformation continues, we see increased complexity in our cloud environments, moving from traditional VM workloads to cloud-native applications and leveraging an increasing selection of PaaS services. This introduces new challenges to cloud providers, security vendors, and security teams who have to familiarize themselves with dozens—or even hundreds—of PaaS services and ensure each is secured properly, given the correct context.

Securing these cloud workloads starts with reducing the attack surface by maintaining the security posture and defense-in-depth. This can be quite a challenge given the variety and the sheer number of posture misconfigurations and vulnerabilities found on an ...