Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Cloud and workloadsConnect Azure Subscription
In brief
The article now specifies that it covers enabling Defender for Cloud on an Azure subscription in the Azure portal and links to separate instructions for connecting Azure commercial subscriptions or management groups in the Microsoft Defender portal.
What Defender admins need to know
Administrators can use the appropriate instructions and portal for their Azure connection scenario.
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In this guide, you learn how to enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud on your Azure subscription.
Important
This article describes how to enable Defender for Cloud on an Azure subscription in the Azure portal. To connect Azure commercial subscriptions or management groups in the Microsoft Defender portal, see Connect Azure environments in the Defender portal.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) with a set of security measures and practices designed to protect your cloud-based applications end-to-end by combining these capabilities:
- A development security operations (DevSecOps) solution that unifies security management at the code level across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments.
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+This article describes how to enable Defender for Cloud on an Azure subscription in the Azure portal. To connect Azure commercial subscriptions or management groups in the Microsoft Defender portal, see [Connect Azure environments in the Defender portal](defender-portal/connect-azure-environments-defender-portal).
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) with a set of security measures and practices designed to protect your cloud-based applications end-to-end by combining these capabilities:
- A development security operations (DevSecOps) solution that unifies security management at the code level across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments.