Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Architecture and deploymentStart to Plan Multicloud Protection in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
In brief
The guide now more clearly describes its CSPM and CWPP coverage, recommends following the planning guides in order, renames the “Problem space” section, and updates navigation to the business-needs guide.
What Defender admins need to know
Administrators can use the clearer structure and scope when planning multicloud security solutions.
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Documentation change
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Start to plan multicloud protection
Introduction to multicloud security design with Defender for Cloud
This article introduces guidance to help you design a solution for securing and protecting a multicloud environment with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The guidance can be used by cloud solution and infrastructure architects, security architects and analysts, and anyone else involved in designing a multicloud security solution.
As you capture your functional and technical requirements, the articles in this guide provide an overview of multicloud capabilities, planning guidance, and prerequisites.
Follow the multicloud security planning guides in order. TheyThe guides build on each other to help you make design decisions. We recommend that you reread the articles in this guide as needed, to understand and incorporate all considerations.
What should I get from this guide?
Use this guide as an aid as you design Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solutions for identifying and remediating security misconfigurations, and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) solutions for protecting workloads such as servers, databases, and containers, across multicloud environments. After reading the articles in this guide, you should have answers to the following:
- What questions should I ask and answer as I design my multicloud solution?
- What steps do I need to complete to design a solution?
- What technologies and capabilities are available to me?
- What trade-offs do I need to consider?
Problem spaceMulticloud protection challenges
As organizations span multiple cloud providers, it becomes increasingly complex to centralize security, and for security teams to work across multiple environments and vendors.
Next step
In this article, we provided an introduction to begin your path to designing aTo continue the multicloud security solution. Continue with the next step todesign process, see Determine business needs.
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