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Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender Platform Delivers Better Cloud Security

Security in the cloud is becoming more complex. But Microsoft’s Defender XDR and Sentinel’s Security Operations Service are helping businesses identify potential risks sooner.

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According to recent survey data from Flexera, 89% of companies now use multicloud, with 73% taking a hybrid cloud approach. While Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) continue to lead the market, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM and Oracle are also making inroads.

Having more players in the marketplace improves distribution of resources and enhances computing power, but it also results in more potential security risks.

Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender have created a unified security operations cloud-based platform. The partnership bolsters cloud security across any cloud environment.

Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender Deliver Cloud Protection

Azure Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM capable of intelligently detecting threats and taking automatic action. “Sentinel is the brain. It handles all the data,” says CDW’s Paul Carrico, principal strategist for Microsoft Cloud. And it’s capable of ingesting data from multiple sources and multiple clouds to create evolving threat profiles.

Defender, meanwhile, provides comprehensive endpoint protection. “It protects your cloud workloads, endpoints, and ID management, and it all gets pulled into Sentinel,” adds Rufus Harvey, cloud strategic alliance architect at CDW.

It’s also worth noting that Defender is agentless, cloud-powered and offers infinite room to scale, with the capacity to handle more than 1 million endpoints on a single tenant.

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