Overview
End-to-end hybrid and multicloud security
- Prevent cyberattacks with built-in, natively integrated security controls across the entire cloud and AI application lifecycle.
- Minimize cloud security risks proactively with unified posture management and threat insights across your entire digital estate.
- Detect and respond to cloud and AI threats in near real-time with GenAI-powered fixes in the unified Microsoft Defender portal.
Market statistics
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Business value enabled by Defender for Cloud
Products
Comprehensive cloud security for multicloud and hybrid environments
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with end-to-end security across the full application lifecycle.
Microsoft Security Exposure Management
Reduce risk and optimize your security posture with comprehensive visibility into your attack surface and exposure to cyberthreats.
GitHub Advanced Security
Empower developers and security teams to work together to accelerate the delivery of secure software.
Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management
See your business the way a cyberattacker does, with visibility across your resources and multicloud environment.
Microsoft Defender XDR
Automatically disrupt cyberattacks and accelerate response with extended detection and response (XDR).
Microsoft Security Copilot
Protect your organization at the speed and scale of AI with a generative AI-powered assistant for daily operations in security and IT.
Scenarios
One solution for all your clouds
Reduce complexity and gain visibility with a unified CNAPP built to work across your hybrid and multicloud environments.
Secure your software supply chain and prevent vulnerabilities and secrets in code.
Prevent cloud misconfigurations from reaching your production environment with secure infrastructure-as-code templates and container images.
Prevent future cyberattacks using attack path analysis across cloud and AI workloads, APIs, and datastores in multicloud environments.
Help prevent, detect, and respond to cyberthreats across servers, containers, service layers, databases, APIs, identities, and apps—whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Quickly detect and respond to cloud threats in a unified, end-to-end SecOps experience.
RECOGNITION AND RESEARCH
Recognition and research by top industry research firms
- Learn why Microsoft was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment.2
- Learn why Frost & Sullivan named Microsoft a leader in the Frost Radar: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms 2024 report.3
- Read The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, January 2025.1
- Microsoft is recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2024 Global Market Leadership Award in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms.4
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- [1]The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, August 2024, updated January 2025.
To understand benefits, costs, and risks, Forrester interviewed five representatives with experience using Defender for Cloud. For the purposes of this study, Forrester aggregated the results from these customers into a single composite organization. - [2]IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment, by Philip Bues and Frank Dickson, June 2025, IDC #US53549925.
- [3]Anhtien Vu, Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, Frost & Sullivan, November 2024.
- [4]Frost & Sullivan, 2024 Best Practices Award, 2024 Market Leader in the Global CWPP Industry.
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