Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management
Focus on your most critical risks first across multicloud environments with contextual cloud security posture management (CSPM).
New capabilities designed for the era of AI
Innovate boldly with built-in security during the application lifecycle. Secure AI, data, and compute workloads in your multicloud environment with new, comprehensive cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) capabilities.
Reduce critical risks with contextual CSPM
Gain full visibility, contextual insights, and built-in workflows to remediate the most critical risks across clouds with Defender CSPM.
Maintain compliance with multicloud benchmarks
Follow best practices for multicloud security compliance with controls mapped to major regulatory industry benchmarks, such as the Center for Internet Security, the payment card industry, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in a central dashboard.
Reduce risk by knowing the context
Gain full visibility into your security and compliance posture and understand the most important risks with Defender Cloud Security Posture Management.
This diagram shows the key value proposition of the Defender Cloud Security Posture Management scenario among the three parallel Defender for Cloud user scenarios.
Visibility, contextual prioritization, and compliance are projected from the Defender Cloud Security Posture Management icon, highlighting user benefits. A transparent connected constellation of workloads icons is embedded in the background of the diagram to illustrate the underlying cloud security graph that provides the contextual insights of Defender for Cloud.
Key capabilities
Reduce your risk with Defender Cloud Security Posture Management.
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- [1] Forrester, Forrester New Wave, Forrester Wave, and Total Economic Impact are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc.
- [2] The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security, Q2 2023. Andras Cser, Merritt Maxim, Caroline Provost, Christine Turley, April 25, 2023.
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- [4] The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, August 2024.
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