A collection of controls and the logic used to assess them in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Examples include benchmarks like the Microsoft cloud security benchmark, regulatory frameworks and controls an organisation defines itself.
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Each book explains Security standard in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Combines security posture management with workload protection: a free foundational CSPM tier, paid Defender plans, Secure Score and recommendations. Its regulatory compliance dashboard shows status only and blocks nothing.
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- Microsoft cloud security benchmark
Framework of security best practices from Microsoft, previously called Azure Security Benchmark, which Defender for Cloud assigns as its default standard.