A security posture figure shown in the Defender portal for your Microsoft 365 identities, apps and devices; it rises as you complete more of Microsoft's recommendations.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, Microsoft's software-as-a-service productivity suite. A Microsoft Entra tenant provides its identity, and its data is not governed by Azure RBAC.
- Deployment modes
The two ways ARM can deploy: Incremental, the default, creates or updates what the template lists and ignores everything else; Complete also removes resource group contents absent from the template.
Related terms
- SSPM
SaaS security posture management: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps checks connected cloud apps for weak settings, suggests how to correct them and feeds what it finds into Microsoft Secure Score.