What’s new in Defender for Cloud? 

Now in public preview, DCSPM (Defender for Cloud Security Posture Management) extends its capabilities to cover serverless workloads in both Azure and AWS, like Azure Web Apps and AWS Lambda.

For more information, see our public documentation.

Defender for Cloud’s integration with Endor Labs is now GA

Focus on exploitable open-source vulnerabilities across the application lifecycle with Defender for Cloud and Endor Lab integration. This feature is now generally available!
For more details, please refer to this documentation.

Blogs of the month

In December, our team published the following blog posts:

1. Defender for AI Alerts


2. Demystifying AI Security Posture Management


3. Breaking down security silos: Defender for Cloud expands into the Defender portal


4. Part 3: Unified Security Intelligence – Orchestrating Gen AI Threat Detection with Microsoft Sentinel

Defender for Cloud in the field

Watch the latest Defender for Cloud in the Field YouTube episode here:

1. Malware Automated Remediation


2. New Secure score in Defender for Cloud

GitHub Community

Check out Module 27 in the Defender for Cloud lab on GitHub. This module covers gating mechanisms to enforce security policies and prevent deployment of insecure container images.

Click here for MDC Github lab module 27

Customer journeys

Discover how other organizations successfully use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their cloud workloads. This month we are featuring Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Company, an American multinational automobile manufacturer, and its innovative and evolving technology footprint and infrastructure needed equally sophisticated security. With Defender and other Microsoft products like Purview, Sentinel and Entra, Ford was able to modernize and deploy end-to-end protection, with Zero-trust architecture, and reduce vulnerabilities across the enterprise. Additionally, Ford’s SOC continues to respond with speed and precision with the help of Defender XDR.  

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JANUARY 20 (8:00 AM- 9:00 AM PT) What’s new in Microsoft Defender CSPM

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