December edition
What's new in Defender for Cloud?
Defender for Cloud integrates into the Defender portal as part of the broader Microsoft Security ecosystem, now in public preview. This integration, while adding posture management insight, eliminates silos natively to allow security teams to see and act on threats across all cloud, hybrid, and code environments from one place.
For more information, see our public documentation.
Discover Azure AI Foundry agents in your environment
The Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) plan secures generative AI applications and now, in public preview, AI agents throughout its entire lifecycle.
Discover AI agent workloads and identify details of your organization’s AI Bill of Materials (BOM). Details like vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and potential attack paths help protect your environment. Plus, Defender for Cloud monitors for any suspicious or harmful actions initiated by the agent.
Blogs of the month
- Unlocking Business Value: Microsoft’s Dual Approach to AI for Security and Security for AI
- Fast-Start Checklist for Microsoft Defender CSPM: From Enablement to Best Practices
- Announcing Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 (public preview)
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Innovations at Ignite 2025
- Defender for AI services: Threat protection and AI red team workshop
Defender for Cloud in the field
Revisit the Cloud Detection Response experience here..
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GitHub Community
Check out the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Enterprise Onboarding Guide. It has been updated to include the latest network requirements. This guide describes the actions an organization must take to successfully onboard to MDC at scale.
Customer journeys
Discover how other organizations successfully use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their cloud workloads. This month we are featuring Icertis. Icertis, a global leader in contract intelligence, launched AI applications using Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models that help customers extract clauses, assess risk, and automate contract workflows.
Because contracts contain highly sensitive business rules and arrangements, their deployment of Vera, their own generative AI technology that includes Copilot agents and analytics for tailored contract intelligence, introduced challenges like enforcing and maintaining compliance and security challenges like prompt injections, jailbreak attacks and hallucinations.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s comprehensive AI posture visibility with risk reduction recommendations and threat protection for AI applications with contextual evidence helped preserve their generative AI applications. Icertis can monitor OpenAI deployments, detect malicious prompts and enforce security policies as their first line of defense against AI-related threats.
Join our community!
Join our experts in the upcoming webinars to learn what we are doing to secure your workloads running in Azure and other clouds. Check out our upcoming webinars this month!
DECEMBER 4 (8:00 AM- 9:00 AM PT) Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Unlocking New Capabilities in Defender for Storage
DECEMBER 10 (9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT) Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Expose Less, Protect More with Microsoft Security Exposure Management
DECEMBER 11 (8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PT) Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Modernizing Cloud Security with Next‑Generation Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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