Implementing Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Having ASC enabled in your environment is a great start to strengthen your security posture; however, to protect your environment, you will lean on Microsoft Defender for Cloud. We want to walk through with you how to enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud in your enterprise.
Reminder
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a solution that comes with various costs, so please review these before enabling.
Enabling Microsoft Defender for Cloud can be either a carte blanche task or a very granular task, down to the resource types you want protection on. Just as when you enabled ASC, some prerequisites exist before enablement is an option.
Prerequisites
Permissions are needed within Azure for you to enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud for your enterprise. Here is an outline of the available permission options that must be assigned to your user account, administrative account, or service account:
- Subscription owner
- Subscription...