Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a unique multi-cloud application protection platform (CNAPP) meticulously designed to safeguard your cloud-based applications from all sides, covering the whole journey from code to the cloud. Continuous monitoring and mitigation of new vulnerabilities across your cloud workloads is essential to cloud security. Robust vulnerability management strategies help organizations enhance their security, minimize attack surfaces, and boost protection against potential security breaches.
Microsoft has unified vulnerability assessment, allowing Microsoft Defender for Cloud to use Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management as its primary scanner for servers and containers. This strategic shift offers security administrators access to Microsoft’s threat intelligence and enhanced breach probability estimations, enabling a centralized vulnerability scanner for all workloads in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Why Defender Vulnerability Management?
- Consistency: Microsoft Defender Vulnerability administration offers a uniform scanner tool for various platforms and technologies, ensuring consistent and trustworthy results across various environments simplifying security administration.
- Efficiency: Improves productivity by removing duplication, automating procedures, and integrating with other security processes, which leads to faster reaction times and better remedial priorities.
- Cost-Effective: Defender Vulnerability Management is a cost-effective option for enterprises, available in premium and ordinary server plans, with varying capabilities depending on the plan. Check Defender for Server plans, which include premium and ordinary versions.
- Seamless Integration: Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management offers seamless integration without agent installation, allowing users to choose their agents based on individual needs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) provides this capability, eliminating the need for another agent if MDE is already in use.
- Coverage: Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management provides comprehensive coverage of OS platforms and application vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux settings, utilizing a vast database of CVEs from over 30 security bulletins, which include NIST-NVD, IBM X-force, Red Hat, and more.
- Rich Metadata: Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management offers AI-powered insights into real-world threats, enabling proactive vulnerability repair based on contextual risk analysis. This approach prioritizes risk mitigation, considering factors like exposure and data sensitivity to enhance security against emerging threats.
- Compliance: It helps firms achieve cybersecurity requirements and laws while providing accountability to stakeholders such as customers, partners, and regulators (e.g., SBOM information, and security baselines).
Next Steps
Whether you’ve previously used the built-in Qualys scanner or are new to our vulnerability assessment service, be sure to pick Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management as your VA provider.
Follow these steps if you use Defender CSPM or Defender for Server plans:
- Navigate to Microsoft Defender for Cloud > Environment settings.
- If you use Defender CSPM or Defender for Servers P2, ensure the Agentless scanning setting is enabled.
- Defender for Server users (P1 or P2) can enable Defender for Endpoint through the Endpoint protection settings. Defender Vulnerability Management will protect machines using Defender for Endpoint.
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