Specifying a security standard for onboarding a new application

In addition to utilizing tools such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to mitigate threats for applications that are active, you should also consider the full life cycle of an application. This includes the planning, testing, and onboarding of the application. Once that application has been onboarded, you need to monitor, manage, and mitigate that application to protect against threats and vulnerabilities.

To guide you through the application onboarding and the continuous monitoring and compliance life cycle, Microsoft has the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure. The CAF provides guidance for developing a strategy, building a plan, getting ready to execute that plan, and then adopting the plan by migrating or modernizing workloads to Azure. Once the adoption is complete, the operations and management of the workloads continue the life cycle and drive additional adoption of more...