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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Customer Newsletter

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Feb 02, 2026

February edition

What's new in Defender for Cloud? 

Now in public preview, Microsoft Security Private Link allows for private connectivity between Defender for Cloud and your workloads.

For more information, see our public documentation.

 

Blogs of the month

In January, our team published the following blog posts we would like to share:

  1. Guarding Kubernetes Deployments: Runtime gating for vulnerable images now GA
  2. Architecting Trust: A NIST-Based Security Governance Framework for AI Agents

Defender for Cloud in the field

Revisit the announcement on the CloudStorageAggregatedEvents table in XDR’s Advanced Hunting experience.

GitHub Community

Update your Defender for SQL on machines extension at scale

Customer journey

Discover how other organizations successfully use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their cloud workloads. This month we are featuring Toyota Leasing Thailand. Toyota Leasing Thailand, a financial services subsidiary of Toyota, provides financing, insurance and mobility services and is entrusted with sensitive personal data. Integrating with Defender, Entra and Purview, Security Copilot provided the SOC and the IT team a unified view, streamlined operations and reporting to reduce response times on phishing attacks from hours to minutes.  

Join our community!

We offer several customer connection programs within our private communities. By signing up, you can help us shape our products through activities such as reviewing product roadmaps, participating in co-design, previewing features, and staying up-to-date with announcements. Sign up at aka.ms/JoinCCP.

We greatly value your input on the types of content that enhance your understanding of our security products. Your insights are crucial in guiding the development of our future public content. We aim to deliver material that not only educates but also resonates with your daily security challenges. Whether it’s through in-depth live webinars, real-world case studies, comprehensive best practice guides through blogs, or the latest product updates, we want to ensure our content meets your needs. Please submit your feedback on which of these formats do you find most beneficial and are there any specific topics you’re interested in https://aka.ms/PublicContentFeedback.

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Updated Feb 02, 2026
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