Microsoft 365 and Azure Security Tools: Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Videos|by Kieran Hollingsworth|14 August 2024
In the fifth episode of our Microsoft 365 and Azure security tools series, our specialists go over how Defender for Cloud, Microsoft’s cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), can safeguard your cloud-based applications from various cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
If you want to incorporate good security practices early in the software development process, or DevSecOps, consider Defender for Cloud. You can protect your code management environments, your code pipelines and get insights into your development environment security posture from a single location.
Defender for Cloud is an essential solution if your business has cloud-based applications, virtual machines, servers, containers, storage or other workloads. Defender for Cloud:
- Empowers security teams with the ability to protect apps from code to cloud
- Provides DevOps security findings such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Provides recommendations to secure your environment and security posture
- Offers specific protections for servers, containers, storage, databases and workloads
To learn more about Defender for Cloud and its capabilities, watch our video, available now.
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