April edition
What’s new in Defender for Cloud?
We're enhancing the severity levels of recommendations to improve risk assessment and prioritization. As part of this update, we reevaluated all severity classifications and introduced a new level — Critical. See this page for more info.
General Availability of File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) based on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in Azure Government
File Integrity Monitoring based on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is now GA in Azure Government (GCCH) as part of Defender for Servers Plan 2.
For more details, please refer to our documentation
Blog(s) of the month
In March, our team published the following blog posts we would like to share:
- Integrating Security into DevOps Workflows with Microsoft Defender CSPM
- New innovations to protect custom AI applications with Defender for Cloud
- All Key Vaults Are Critical, But Some Are More Critical Than Others: Finding the Crown Jewels
GitHub Community
Learn more about code reachability in Defender for Cloud: Module 26 - Defender for Cloud Code Reachability Vulnerabilities with Endor Labs
Defender for Cloud in the field
Watch the latest Defender for Cloud in the Field YouTube episode here:
- Unveiling Kubernetes lateral movement in Defender for Cloud
- Manage cloud security posture with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Customer journey
Discover how other organizations successfully use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their cloud workloads. This month we are featuring Danfuss. Danfoss’s growth contrasted with inefficient manual, on-premises security solutions. It wanted a scalable security solution to defend its global data and SAP landscape while lifting security team effectiveness.
Danfoss adopted Microsoft Sentinel and the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications. It ingests logs from 20 applications and thousands of devices with the connectors including Defender for Cloud.
Security community webinars
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!
April 15 Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Securing Custom Built AI Applications with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
April 30 Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Securing Custom Built AI Applications with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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