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Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides you the tools needed to harden your network, secure your services and make sure you're on top of your security posture.
Defender for Cloud addresses the three most urgent security challenges:
- Rapidly changing workloads – It’s both a strength and a challenge of the cloud. On the one hand, end users are empowered to do more. On the other, how do you make sure that the ever-changing services people are using and creating are up to your security standards and follow security best practices?
- Increasingly sophisticated attacks - Wherever you run your workloads, the attacks keep getting more sophisticated. You have to secure your public cloud workloads, which are, in effect, an Internet facing workload that can leave you even more vulnerable if you don't follow security best practices.
- Security skills are in short supply - The number of security alerts and alerting systems far outnumbers the number of administrators with the necessary background and experience to make sure your environments are protected. Staying up to date with the latest attacks is a constant challenge, making it impossible to stay in place while the world of security is an ever-changing front.
To help you protect yourself against these challenges, Defender for Cloud provides you with the tools to:
- Strengthen security posture: Defender for Cloud assesses your environment and enables you to understand the status of your resources, and whether they are secure.
- Protect against threats: Defender for Cloud assesses your workloads and raises threat prevention recommendations and threat detection alerts.
- Get secure faster: In Defender for Cloud, everything is done in cloud speed. Because it is natively integrated, deployment of Defender for Cloud is easy, providing you with autoprovisioning and protection with Azure services.
You can read more about Microsoft Defender for Cloud at: What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?.