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Defender for Cloud DCR
Enabling Defender for Servers Plan 2 and creating a custom DCR to enable the 500MB ingestion into log analytics. The workspace I am sending the logs to is connected to Sentinel. When I looked at creating the DCR I received this pop-up If I enable the Sentinel connector, will this duplicate the cost of the logs or will the connector just enable the data to be surfaced in Sentinel?Is setting an index tag in Azure Defender for Cloud during file write an atomic operation?
Hi, When using Azure Defender for Cloud, is setting an index tag at the same time as writing a file considered an atomic operation? Or is there a propagation delay before the tag becomes fully available and effective for search and policy enforcement? Any insights or official documentation references would be appreciated!File Integrity Monitoring - Agentless Issues in Detecting Changes to Files
Hello! Looks like there have been some recent updates made to File Integrity Monitoring. After reviewing the MS documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/file-integrity-monitoring-overview#recommended-items-to-monitor it looks like you can now create custom Rules for Files and for custom Registry keys. From what I can gather from the documentation, agentless scans are used for custom rules that you create and an agentless scan occurs once every 24 hours. I have created several custom rules to detect if a file has been Deleted, Added, Modified or Renamed and Defender for Cloud is still not detecting any changes. I have made changes to these files 3 days ago, and no changes have been reported back. Any ideas why this might not be working. I have already confirmed that the appropriate RBAC Roles have been assigned to my Key Vaults where CMK Disks are being used. I also wanted to know if the Agentless FIM can monitor Folders / Directories as well. I haven't seen anything about this in the documentation. Is this even supported?
MISRA support in Defender
I want to check for MISRA C code compliance. The idea is to check for MISRA C compliance when asking for a Pull Request. If the code fails on those checks, the PR will not be created. This way, we enforce MISRA compliance before integrating the code to the repository. I am not seeing MISRA in the list of standards under - Regulatory Compliance>>Subscriptions>> Security Po;iciesRuntime protection - Microsoft Defender for Cloud DevOps Security (Defender CSPM)
Hi team! The current support status for Microsoft Defender for Cloud DevOps Security (Defender CSPM) and runtime protection across services are this one : Fully Supported for Runtime Protection Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) are there more runtime in the product roadmap (Azure Container Apps, AWS, Fargate for Amazon ECS, Azure Functions, AWS Lambda)? ThanksOnboarding MDE with Defender for Cloud (Problem)
Hello Community, In our Customer i have a strange problem. We onboarded with Azure Arc server and activate a Defender for Cloud servises only for Endpoint protection. Some of this device onboarded into Microsoft Defender portale, but not appears as a device, infact i don't have opportunity to put them into a group to apply policy. I have check sensor of Azure Arc and all works fine (device are in Azure Arc, are in the defender portal and see them on Intune (managed by MDE)). From Intune portal From Defender portal But in difference from other device into entra ID exists only the enterprise application and not device I show the example of device that works correctly (the same onboarding method) Is there anyone who has or has had this problem? Thanks and Regards, Guido
Unable to resolve - A vulnerability assessment solution should be enabled on your virtual machines
We currently have a mix of approximately 45 Windows / Linux Servers and AVD machines which are not successfully being marked as compliant with the Defender recommendation "A vulnerability assessment solution should be enabled on your virtual machines". On the subscription level we have Defender for Servers Plan 2 enabled and Agentless Scanning CSPM enabled. Within a subscription some of the of these VMs are compliant and others are not. Their compliance state doesn't appear to have any relevance to if the Qualys or MDE extensions are installed. We have servers that are healthy that have Qualys, MDE, or none installed and are healthy. Our VMs are not using the full feature set of Defender Plan 2 as we use CrowdStrike so the Defender for Endpoint functionality of the Defender for Servers Plan 2 has been disabled, but to my knowledge this shouldn't impact Vulnerability assessments. In Security Portal it does seem that generally all the VMs that healthy for this recommendation are visible in the devices section. Whereas these 45 that are not, are either not searchable or have sensor health state "inactive". We have an Azure Policy generated to onboard devices to Vulnerability assessment using MDE.Tvm and it seems to be generally working but not for these 45 devices. The Microsoft Documentation is really unclear, what do we need to make these systems compliant?How are you presenting CSPM and CNAPP insights to your executive leadership?
Hi everyone, I'm a Cloud Security Specialist at Microsoft, working closely with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and I wanted to start a conversation with the community — partly out of curiosity, but also to learn from your real-world experiences. When it comes to reporting cloud security posture to your executive leadership (CISO, CTO, or broader security/tech leadership), how are you presenting insights from CSPM, CNAPP, or Defender for Containers? Specifically, how do you communicate findings such as: Misconfigurations Vulnerabilities Risk exposure across your cloud environments? Are you using: Power BI dashboards to centralize and visualize the data? Manual Excel reports? The native Defender for Cloud portal? Or even exploring Microsoft Fabric for more advanced reporting scenarios? I’d love to hear how you’re turning technical insights into executive-level narratives. Do you follow a particular structure, reporting cadence, or set of best practices? Looking forward to hearing how others in the community are approaching this challenge — and how you're bridging the gap between cloud security and business strategy.Secure score power BI dashboard
We are following https://github.com/Azure/Microsoft-Defender-for-Cloud/tree/main/Secure%20Score to deploy secure score over the time dashboard for MDC. however steps for the deployment are very old when we had azure security center instead of MDC and prerequisites are not properly documented. As per the article we need to: Export the secure score data to Log analytics workspace by using continuous report option in MDC portal. Deploy Secure Score over the time workbook which can export the secure score data to Log Analytics workspace (not clear if this will pull reports every 24 hours and what permissions are required on Log Analytics workspace and to deploy the workbook) Do we need to export the secure score data to same Log Analytics workspace on which MDC is deployed or a separate workspace is needed ? If MDC already uses Log analytics workspace in the backend to store the logs then why can't we pull the secure score log data directly? why we need to export the secure score data to Log Analytics workspace first then to connect it to dashboard ?
