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May 04, 2026

May edition

What's new in Defender for Cloud?

Container runtime anti-malware detection and blocking and DNS Detection for Kubernetes is now GA in Defender for Containers for AKS, EKS, and GKE. Learn more about these announcements here and here.

Defender for Storage integration in Azure Portal Storage Center now Generally Available

Customers can now view Defender for Storage threat protection and security posture coverage directly in Storage Center, next to their storage resources to understand which storage accounts are protected, where malware scanning, activity monitoring and sensitive data discovery are enabled and identify security gaps in Azure Blog Storage and Azure File storage. For more details, please refer to this documentation.

Check out other updates from last month here! 

Check out monthly news for the rest of the MTP suite here!  

Blogs of the month

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

  1. Securing multicloud (Azure, AWS & GCP) with Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Connector best practices

Defender for Cloud in the field

Check out the two short videos on Defender Portal integration and Start Secure Stay Secure with Defender for Cloud

GitHub Community

Check out the AI Red Teaming Workshop below:

Customer journey

Discover how other organizations successfully use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their cloud workloads. This month we are featuring Photon Education, a Poland-based edtech company that uses Defender for Cloud to protect their App Services and databases immediately.

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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