Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a comprehensive Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that helps organizations secure applications across their entire lifecycle. It provides a unified view of security posture across multicloud and on-premises environments, combining Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Development Security Operations (DevSecOps), and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) capabilities.

Defender for Cloud enables teams to detect misconfigurations, enforce policies, reduce risks early in the development pipeline, and protect workloads such as VMs, containers, serverless functions, databases, and storage. It also offers AI security and threat protection features to help safeguard generative AI workloads by detecting vulnerabilities, risks, and attacks targeting AI systems. The platform natively integrates with Azure and extends protection seamlessly to AWS and Google Cloud.