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Cloud security
Get integrated protection for your multicloud apps and resources.
New capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Discover new innovations to help security admins adopt a comprehensive cloud-native application protection strategy. Learn how to improve security with code-to-cloud insights across multiple cloud environments and DevOps platforms.
Help protect your multicloud resources, workloads, and apps
Strengthen multicloud security with a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP).
Improve your cloud security posture
Optimize the configuration of cloud services with extensive assessment tools.
Defend against evolving threats
Help protect cloud workloads and apps from threats with leading security research and threat intelligence.
Control access to critical cloud apps and resources
Enforce real-time access controls and permissions management using built-in risk assessments and contextual information.
Help secure every step of the development lifecycle
Safeguard the entire app development, deployment, and operations lifecycle directly within the standard developer workflow.
End-to-end protection for your cloud estate
Strengthen your security posture and help protect cloud workloads with a unified platform, deep signal intelligence, and streamlined administration.
Cloud security products
Get comprehensive protection for your apps, services, and resources across multiple cloud environments.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Strengthen your security posture, protect workloads against modern threats, and develop more secure applications.
GitHub Advanced Security
Build, deploy, and operate more secure code and apps in the cloud.
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Discover, remediate, and monitor permission risks for any identity or resource with a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.
Azure network security
Strengthen security from the edge to the cloud with cloud-native network security based on Zero Trust.
Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management
Better understand your security posture inside and outside the firewall.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Discover, manage, govern access, and enable threat protection across your SaaS apps.
Watch Microsoft cloud security products in action
Explore how Defender for Cloud, Azure network security, and Defender for Cloud Apps help you strengthen your security posture and defend against threats across your cloud environments.
Industry recognition and analysis
Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.
The Forrester Wave: IPNS
Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security (IPNS), Q2 2023.1
Forrester Consulting TEI Study
Microsoft Defender for Cloud delivers 219 percent ROI over three years and a payback of less than six months, according to a study commissioned by Microsoft.2
The Forrester New Wave: XDR
Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021.3
Cloud security resources
Integrated protection across your clouds
Learn how to bolster security across your multicloud resources, apps, and data with solutions designed to work together.
Cloud security posture management concepts
Learn how to use security policies and initiatives to strengthen your security posture.
Cloud workload protection concepts
Discover how to use continuous monitoring and assessment to identify misconfigurations and stay ahead of threats.
Permissions Management overview
Learn how to help secure multicloud permissions with Permissions Management.
Related solutions
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- [1] Forrester, Forrester Wave, Total Economic Impact, and Forrester New Wave are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc.
- The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Platform Native Security, Q2 2023, Andras Cser with Merritt Maxim, Caroline Provost, and Christine Turley, April 2023.
- [2] The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure Security Center, A Forrester Total Economic Impact Study commissioned by Microsoft, February 2021.
- [3] The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021, Allie Mellen with Joseph Blankenship, Alexis Tatro, and Peggy Dostie, October 2021.
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