Last updated on March 9, 2023
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Cheat Sheet
- Manages all the security features of Azure.
- Detect vulnerabilities, restrict your exposure to threats, and quickly detect and respond to attacks.
- Secure Score allows you to get continuous assessment and security recommendations.
- It helps you to detect unusual activities and prevent threats in your PaaS workloads.
- Protect your virtual machines with configuration and vulnerability management, workload hardening, and server EDR.
- It also supports advanced monitoring to track and manage compliance & governance.
- Allows you to protect your resources using free or standard tiers.
Concepts
- Defender for Cloud displays the overall secure score of your account. The higher the score, the lower the identified risk level.
- Recommendations help you remediate potential security vulnerabilities in your Azure resources.
- Security controls help you implement a set of security recommendations. After you remediate all of the recommendations, it will reflect in your overall security score.
- To help in complying with the security requirement of your organization, you can define a security policy in your workloads.
- You can quickly investigate the problem and recommendations on how to remediate an attack using security alerts.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud just-in-time (JIT) enables you to lock down inbound traffic to your Azure virtual machines.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Pricing
- With Standard Tier, you are charged
- Per hour for VMs, app services, SQL database
- Per transactions for storage and IoT messages
- Per month for IoT devices
- Per image for ACR
- Per vCore/hour for AKS
Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Microsoft Sentinel:
https://tutorialsdojo.com/azure-security-center-vs-azure-sentinel/
Azure Security Expert Series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxv4NyBs-80&list=PLLasX02E8BPA0ZNzg-BsHio7yTciN-UVu
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Cheat Sheet References:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/defender-for-cloud/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-introduction
AWS, Azure, and GCP Certifications are consistently among the top-paying IT certifications in the world, considering that most companies have now shifted to the cloud. Earn over $150,000 per year with an AWS, Azure, or GCP certification!
Follow us on LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, or join our Slack study group. More importantly, answer as many practice exams as you can to help increase your chances of passing your certification exams on your first try!
View Our AWS, Azure, and GCP Exam Reviewers Check out our FREE courses