Microsoft Defender for Cloud continuously scans your cloud configurations for misconfigurations, protects active workloads from exploitation, and gives you a live compliance score across Azure, AWS, and GCP. We deploy and manage it so your cloud is never a blind spot.
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center and Azure Defender) is a cloud-native application protection platform that combines two distinct capabilities: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), which continuously evaluates your cloud configurations against security benchmarks and tells you exactly what to fix, and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), which detects active threats targeting your running workloads — virtual machines, containers, databases, App Service, and storage. Together they give you complete cloud security visibility from a single dashboard across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Continuous assessment of your cloud resource configurations against the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB) and your chosen compliance frameworks. A live Secure Score quantifies your posture and prioritizes the highest-impact fixes first.
Runtime threat detection for VMs, containers, Kubernetes clusters, databases (SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CosmosDB), App Service, Key Vault, DNS, and storage accounts. Alerts include investigation guidance and direct remediation steps.
Connects to GitHub, Azure DevOps, and GitLab to scan repositories for secrets, Infrastructure-as-Code misconfigurations, and vulnerable dependencies. Security findings surface in pull requests before code reaches production.
Built-in dashboards for CIS, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, NIST, and FedRAMP track your compliance posture in real time. Automated evidence collection reduces the manual burden of audit preparation.
AI-powered analysis identifies the specific sequences of misconfigurations and vulnerabilities that an attacker could chain together to compromise a high-value resource — showing you which paths to close before they're exploited.
A contextual graph of all your cloud resources, their configurations, permissions, and network connectivity. Security Graph powers attack path analysis and allows you to query your environment the way an attacker would map it.
Most organizations focus on one or the other. CSPM without CWPP means you're fixing configurations while active attacks go undetected. CWPP without CSPM means you're fighting threats while your attack surface keeps growing.
| Aspect | CSPM Only | CWPP Only | Defender for Cloud (Both) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Misconfiguration detection | Yes | No | Yes |
| Runtime threat detection | No | Yes | Yes |
| Compliance framework tracking | Yes | Limited | Yes — full |
| Attack path analysis | Limited | No | Yes — AI-powered |
| Workload-specific alerts (DB, K8s, VM) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-cloud coverage (Azure + AWS + GCP) | Partial | Partial | Full — all three clouds |
Your cloud environment doesn't map to a single vendor. Neither should your security posture. Defender for Cloud covers all three major cloud providers with native connectors and cloud-specific security benchmarks.
Native integration with zero configuration friction. Defender for Cloud was purpose-built for Azure, covering Azure VMs, AKS, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, App Service, Key Vault, and all Azure Resource Manager resource types out of the box.
The AWS connector pulls EC2, EKS, ECR container images, RDS, Lambda, and S3 configuration data into Defender for Cloud. Posture recommendations map to AWS Foundational Security Standard and CIS AWS Benchmarks.
The GCP connector covers Google Compute Engine, GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud Storage, and BigQuery. Posture recommendations map to CIS GCP Benchmarks, giving you a consistent security standard across all three cloud environments.
Azure Arc extends Defender for Cloud's posture management and workload protection to on-premises servers and edge infrastructure, giving hybrid organizations a single security view regardless of where workloads run.
Defender for Cloud generates value from the first day of deployment — but an unstructured rollout creates alert fatigue and missed priorities. Our approach delivers immediate posture visibility and a structured remediation program.
We connect all your Azure subscriptions, AWS accounts, and GCP projects to a centralized Defender for Cloud environment. We establish management groups and policy scopes to ensure no cloud resource falls outside coverage.
Within 48 hours of onboarding, your Secure Score gives you a quantified baseline of your cloud security posture. We generate a prioritized remediation report that maps the highest-impact, lowest-effort fixes for your specific environment.
We enable the Defender plan for each workload type relevant to your environment: Defender for Servers, Defender for Containers, Defender for SQL, Defender for App Service, Defender for Key Vault, and Defender for Storage — configured to minimize noise while maximizing detection coverage.
We configure the compliance dashboards for the regulatory frameworks that apply to your organization — PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001. Each dashboard shows your current compliance percentage and the specific controls requiring attention.
We configure workflow automation using Azure Logic Apps to automatically remediate the most common, safe-to-automate findings — enabling public IP on storage accounts, enforcing HTTPS on App Service, requiring TLS on SQL — without waiting for manual intervention.
We integrate Defender for Cloud alerts into Microsoft Sentinel for centralized SIEM analysis, configure alert suppression for known-good patterns, and provide monthly Secure Score improvement reports with remediation guidance for your engineering and DevOps teams.
Defender for Cloud's workload protection plans are workload-specific — each one brings behavioral analytics tuned to the threats specific to that resource type.
Includes Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on every protected server, plus just-in-time VM access (eliminating always-open management ports), adaptive application controls, and file integrity monitoring for Windows and Linux workloads.
Protects AKS, EKS, GKE, and Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters with runtime threat detection, container image vulnerability scanning in registries, and Kubernetes control plane audit log analysis to detect privilege escalation and suspicious workloads.
Anomaly detection for Azure SQL, SQL Server on VMs, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Cosmos DB, and AWS RDS. Detects SQL injection attempts, brute force attacks, unusual query patterns, and access from unexpected locations.
Detects unusual access patterns to Azure Key Vault — access from unfamiliar locations, high volume of operations, abnormal access patterns — protecting secrets, keys, and certificates from exfiltration even by compromised insider accounts.
Monitors Azure App Service for exploitation techniques specific to web applications — command execution via known CVEs, malicious URLs, suspicious outbound communication, fileless attack indicators — without requiring an agent install.
Detects malware uploads, mass data access, anonymous access from Tor exit nodes, and unusual deletion patterns on Azure Blob Storage, Azure Files, and ADLS Gen2 — providing data exfiltration and ransomware precursor detection for cloud storage.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center and Azure Defender) is a cloud-native application protection platform that combines Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) capabilities. CSPM continuously assesses your cloud configurations against security benchmarks and provides a Secure Score with prioritized remediation guidance. CWPP protects the actual workloads running in your cloud — virtual machines, containers, databases, storage, App Service, and key vaults — with threat detection and behavioral analytics.
No. Defender for Cloud provides native support for Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. AWS connector pulls EC2, EKS, ECR, RDS, and S3 configuration data and assesses it against the AWS Foundational Security Standard. GCP connector covers Compute Engine, GKE, and Cloud Storage. CSPM posture recommendations span all three clouds from a single Defender for Cloud dashboard.
CSPM is about configuration — it continuously scans your cloud resources for misconfigurations, overly permissive access policies, and compliance gaps, then tells you how to fix them. CWPP is about runtime threats — it monitors active workloads for exploitation attempts, malware execution, lateral movement, and anomalous behavior, then alerts or responds. You need both: CSPM reduces your attack surface, CWPP detects and responds when attackers find a way through.
Secure Score is a percentage that represents how well your cloud configurations align to security best practices across your subscriptions. Each recommendation has a point value proportional to its security impact. The score increases as you implement recommendations. BluetechGreen uses Secure Score as the primary metric to track posture improvement over time and to prioritize remediation work.
Defender for Cloud includes a DevOps Security capability that connects to GitHub, Azure DevOps, and GitLab repositories. It scans code for secrets exposure, IaC misconfigurations in Terraform and Bicep templates, and vulnerable dependencies. Security findings are surfaced directly in pull requests and developer workflows, shifting security left without requiring developers to leave their tools.
We'll connect to your cloud environment, generate an initial Secure Score baseline, and show you exactly where your highest-risk misconfigurations and workload exposures are — before we agree on any engagement.