Microsoft DefenderDefender for Cloud
A cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) for multicloud and hybrid.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that secures multicloud and hybrid environments — Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud — across posture management, workload protection, DevOps security, and code-to-cloud. It unifies cloud security posture management and workload protection with real-time threat detection. Faltrox operates it as managed cloud security across your clouds.
Overview
What Defender for Cloud is
Cloud environments are attacked across their whole lifecycle — misconfigurations in posture, vulnerabilities in workloads, exposed secrets in code — and point tools leave gaps between them. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is the CNAPP that unifies these into one platform, securing Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud and hybrid environments from code to cloud.
It combines Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) — continuous assessment, secure score, and attack-path analysis — with Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) for servers, containers, databases, storage, and app services, plus DevOps security that shifts left into the pipeline, and real-time threat detection across cloud resources. It gives one prioritised view of cloud risk. Faltrox operates it — tuning policy, triaging findings, and driving remediation as managed cloud security.
Coverage
What it protects
The platforms, threats, and surfaces this product is built to defend.
Azure, AWS & GCP
Secures posture and workloads across all three major clouds and hybrid.
Posture Management
CSPM continuously assesses configuration, secure score, and attack paths.
Workload Protection
CWPP protects servers, containers, databases, storage, and app services.
DevOps Security
Shifts security left into the pipeline, scanning code and infrastructure-as-code.
Attack Paths
Attack-path analysis shows how an attacker could chain risks to a critical asset.
Cloud Threats
Real-time threat detection across cloud resources and workloads.
How it works
The mechanism
How the product moves from signal to protected state, step by step.
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Assess Posture
CSPM continuously assesses cloud configuration and compliance and computes a secure score.
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Analyse Attack Paths
Attack-path analysis shows how misconfigurations and vulnerabilities chain to a critical asset.
- 03
Protect Workloads
CWPP protects servers, containers, databases, storage, and app services from threats.
- 04
Shift Left
DevOps security scans code and infrastructure-as-code before deployment.
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Operate
Faltrox tunes policy, triages findings, and drives remediation as managed cloud security.
Capabilities
Key capabilities
Multicloud CNAPP
Unifies posture and workload protection across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid.
Cloud Security Posture Management
Continuous assessment, secure score, and compliance across every cloud account.
Cloud Workload Protection
Protects servers, containers, databases, storage, and app services at runtime.
DevOps Security
Shifts security left, scanning code, IaC, and pipelines before deployment.
Attack-Path Analysis
Shows how risks chain together to reach critical assets, so you fix what matters.
Threat Detection
Real-time threat detection across cloud resources and workloads.
Secure Score
A prioritised secure score drives measurable improvement in cloud posture.
Sentinel Integration
Cloud detections flow into Microsoft Sentinel for correlated SOC operations.
Works with
Part of the platform
Microsoft products this pairs with, and the Faltrox services that operate it.
Delivery
You buy the outcome, not the console
Managed by Faltrox
Faltrox licenses, deploys, and tunes Microsoft Defender for Cloud for your environment, then runs it as part of a managed service, so you get the protection without staffing another security console.
FAQ
Common questions
01What is a CNAPP?
A Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform unifies the many separate cloud security tools — posture management, workload protection, DevOps security — into one platform that secures the whole cloud application lifecycle. Defender for Cloud does this across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud so multicloud risk is seen in one view.
02Does it cover more than Azure?
Yes — it secures Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud plus hybrid environments, so a multicloud estate has consistent posture management and workload protection rather than per-cloud native tools.
03What is attack-path analysis?
It shows how individual misconfigurations and vulnerabilities chain together into a path an attacker could take to reach a critical asset — so you fix the risks that actually enable a breach rather than triaging thousands of findings in isolation.
04Does it shift security left into development?
Yes — DevOps security scans code, infrastructure-as-code, and pipelines before deployment, so misconfigurations and vulnerabilities are caught early rather than in the running cloud. Faltrox integrates that into your pipelines.
05How does Faltrox operate it?
We deploy it across your clouds, tune the posture and workload policies, triage findings with attack-path context, and drive remediation — feeding cloud detections into Microsoft Sentinel and the SOC services we run as managed cloud security.
Start an engagement
Secure what’s next.
Speak with the engineering team to define scope, walk through the methodology, and decide whether Faltrox is the right team to test and run your environment.
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