Overview
End-to-end hybrid and multicloud security
- Prevent vulnerabilities, minimize cloud misconfigurations, deploy secure infrastructure-as-code templates, and secure your software supply chain.
- Proactively improve your security posture with full lifecycle visibility and attack path analysis.
- Enable near real-time cloud detection and response for workloads, data, and APIs with a unified SecOps experience.
Products
Explore Microsoft cloud security products
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with end-to-end security across the full application lifecycle.
Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management
Mitigate cloud risks with comprehensive visibility, contextual insights, and integrated workflows.
GitHub Advanced Security
Empower developers and security teams to work together to accelerate the delivery of secure software.
Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management
See your business the way a cyber attacker does, with visibility across your resources and multicloud environment.
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Manage permissions of any identity across your entire environment.
Microsoft Security Exposure Management
Reduce risk to your most critical assets with end-to-end visibility of the cyberthreat landscape.
Microsoft Defender XDR
Get unified cyberthreat detection and response across your entire environment with an extended detection and response (XDR) solution.
Scenarios
One solution for all your clouds
Reduce complexity and gain visibility with a unified CNAPP built to work across your hybrid and multicloud environments.
Secure your software supply chain, and prevent vulnerabilities and secrets in code.
Prevent cloud misconfigurations from reaching your production environment with secure infrastructure-as-code templates and container images.
Prevent future cyberattacks using attack path analysis across cloud workloads, APIs, and datastores in multicloud environments.
Help prevent, detect, and respond to cyberthreats across servers, containers, service layers, databases, APIs, identities, and apps—whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Quickly detect and respond to cloud threats in a unified, end-to-end SecOps experience.
Industry recognition
Recognized by top industry analyst firms
- Learn why Frost & Sullivan named Microsoft a leader in the CNAPP market.2
- Read The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, August 2024.1
- See why KuppingerCole rated Microsoft an Overall Leader in Cloud Security Posture Management.3
- See why KuppingerCole named Microsoft an Overall Leader in CNAPP.4
Customer stories
What customers say about Microsoft cloud security
“The three things that keep me up at night are phishing, ransomware, and cloud misconfigurations … We have Defender for Cloud to point out configuration weaknesses and suggest changes.”
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- [1]The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, August 2024.
- [2]Anhtien Vu, Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, Frost & Sullivan, October 2023
- [3]KuppingerCole Analysts AG Leadership Compass, Cloud Security Posture Management, Mike Small, July 27, 2023
- [4]KuppingerCole Analysts AG Leadership Compass, Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform, Mike Small, Alexei Balaganski, January 31, 2023
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