June Edition
What’s new in Defender for Cloud?
Defender for SQL on machines plan has an enhanced agent solution aimed to provide an optimized onboarding experience and improved protection coverage across SQL servers installed in Azure, on premise and GCP/AWS. More information on the enhanced agent solution can be found here.
General Availability for Customizable on-upload malware scanning filters in Defender for Storage
On-upload malware scanning now supports customizable filters. Users can set exclusion rules for on-upload malware scans based on blob path prefixes, suffixes as well as by blob size. By excluding specific blob paths and types, such as logs or temporary files, you can avoid unnecessary scans and reduce costs.
For more details, please refer to our documentation.
Blog(s) of the month
In May, our team published the following blog posts we would like to share:
- The Risk of Default Configuration: How Out-of-the-Box Helm Charts Can Breach Your Cluster
- From visibility to action: The power of cloud detection and response
- Plug, Play, and Prey: The security risks of the Model Context Protocol
- Connecting Defender for Cloud with Jira
- Enhancements for protecting hosted SQL servers across clouds and hybrid environments
GitHub Community
You can now use our new Defender for AI Services pricing estimation script to calculate the projected costs of securing your AI workloads!
Microsoft Defender for AI – Price Estimation Scripts
Defender for Cloud in the field
Watch the latest Defender for Cloud in the Field YouTube episode here:
Customer journey
Discover how other organizations successfully use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their cloud workloads. This month we are featuring Make-A-Wish. Make-A-Wish transitioned to the Azure cloud, where it has unified its data and rebuilt vital applications.
To make children’s wishes come true, Make-A-Wish stewards families’ data, including sensitive information such as medical diagnoses. The nonprofit is dedicated to protecting children’s privacy through industry-leading technology safeguards. Microsoft security products and services shield Make-A-Wish's operations across the board. Microsoft Defender for Cloud uses advanced threat protection, detection, and response for the nonprofit’s cloud applications, storage, devices, identities, and more.
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!
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