January edition
What's new in Defender for Cloud?
Defender for Cloud’s CSPM sensitive scanning capabilities now include Azure files. This feature is in GA. Learn more about it here.
File integrity monitoring (FIM) update
Staring June 2025, FIM requires a minimum Defender for Endpoint (MDE) client version. For Windows devices, please make sure you have Windows 10.8760 or later and for Linux, 30.124082. For more details, please refer to our documentation.
Blogs of the month
GitHub Community
Learn more about MDC and XDR integration by following this lab – module 25.
Defender for Cloud in the field
- MDC Ignite updates 2024
- Cloud detection response (CDR) for Defender for Containers
- Improvements in Container's posture management
Customer journey
Discover how other organizations successfully use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their cloud workloads. This month we are featuring Properstar, a leading real estate platform, partnered with Microsoft to simplify unstructured real estate data and leverage dynamic AI-powered solutions like Azure Open AI to provide relevant search results. Then, they were able to scale up, using Defender for Cloud to implement data protection and regulatory compliance.
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 in the link below!
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