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Understand Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Understand Microsoft Defender for Cloud

From the course: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Cert Prep: 2 Azure Architecture and Security

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Understand Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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- [Trainer] Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides you with a single unified interface for all things security. It is the go-to product for end-to-end visibility into your resources. The unification here is helpful because it means you don't have to go through multiple consoles and dashboards to view various security related events. Defender for Cloud consolidates all of that in one single place. It is an on-premises and a multi-cloud solution. This means it can gather data from your on-premises environment as well as other popular public clouds out there, that's Azure or even Amazon Web Services, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform, GCP. The way it works is it installs a small piece of software called agents or extensions inside your resources. These agents and extensions can be automatically provisioned to your resources. What they do is they perform a verbose scan of the resources and report raw data back to Microsoft…

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