Defender for Cloud guides
Microsoft's cloud workload protection platform for Azure, AWS, and GCP resources. See the glossary entry →
9 guides touch on defender for cloud.
- Defender XDR and attack-surface management
How Microsoft Defender XDR unifies Defender for Office, Endpoint, Identity, and Cloud Apps into a single SOC workflow.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps explained
Defender for Cloud Apps is Microsoft's CASB — discovering, monitoring, and controlling SaaS app usage.
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint explained
Defender for Endpoint is Microsoft's EDR/XDR platform for laptops, servers, and mobile. Here's what it does.
- Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor deployment
How to plan and roll out Defender for Identity sensors — DCs, AD FS, Entra Connect, and tuning.
- Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access
Microsoft's SSE platform — Internet Access and Private Access for zero-trust network access. Here's what it does.
- Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention — a deep dive
DLP policies detect and prevent sensitive data from leaving Microsoft 365. Here's the architecture and how to roll them out.
- Microsoft Sentinel onboarding
How to onboard Microsoft Sentinel — workspace setup, data connectors, and starting analytic rules.
- Which Microsoft Defender is which
Which Microsoft Defender is which: Endpoint, Office 365, Identity, Cloud Apps, Business, XDR, Cloud, Antivirus — what each does and which licence gets it.
- Zero trust in Microsoft 365
What zero trust actually means in a Microsoft 365 context — and the concrete controls that get you there.