Cloud workload protection and multi-cloud capabilities
The second main pillar of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is Cloud Workload Protection, which is all about enhanced security features and threat intelligence. These enhanced capabilities are activated once you enable one or several of the Defender for Cloud enhanced security plans, as highlighted earlier in this chapter. As Microsoft is constantly working on improving existing and adding future plans to Defender for Cloud, we can only cover some of them in this chapter to give you an idea of what additional capabilities they provide. In general, when enabling Defender for Cloud plans, this will enable threat detection capabilities for the workload that is being protected by a plan, but also other advanced cloud defense capabilities, such as vulnerability assessments.
Microsoft Defender for Servers
One of the most popular Defender for Cloud plans is Microsoft Defender for Servers. Defender for Servers leverages the machine&apos...