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Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud

- Describe security management capabilities of Azure. Here we describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud native application protection platform that helps you secure your cloud-based applications from various cyber threats and vulnerabilities. It combines the capabilities of a DevSecOps solution that unifies security management at the code level across multi-cloud and multi pipeline environments. A cloud security posture management solution that surfaces actions that you can take to prevent breaches and a cloud workload protection platform with specific protections for servers, containers, storage, database, and other essential workloads. So in recap, it is a DevOps solution that unifies security management, a cloud security posture management solution to prevent breaches and a cloud workload protection platform with specific protections for all of your assets.

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