Introducing Microsoft Defender for Cloud

With cloud computing being the main paradigm in the modern IT world, many benefits are associated with this new way of working. IT is no longer an end in itself and employees are way more productive than they were back in the day. But there are also new challenges when it comes to protecting modern IT environments.

In Chapter 3, Managing Cloud Identities, we covered advanced identity protection and that it is no longer enough to protect network boundaries; however, some other key security challenges come with cloud computing. How can you make sure you protect your ever-changing cloud services and applications? This is one of the value propositions of cloud computing and, in fact, probably the main benefit is that you can easily change and adapt in cloud environments. Be it continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), Virtual Machine (VM) upscaling, or service decommissioning, cloud environments are dynamic. But, at the same time, one...