01 What is it?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides CSPM and CWPP across Azure, AWS and GCP, plus AI-specific posture for Azure AI Foundry. Microsoft Sentinel is the cloud-native SIEM and SOAR. Together they form Microsoft's unified security operations platform.
02 Why implement it?
- Multi-cloud posture and workload protection in one product
- Native integration with Microsoft Entra and the Microsoft graph
- AI posture management for Azure AI Foundry agents
- Sentinel for SIEM and SOAR with hundreds of connectors
- Strong compliance content (CIS, PCI, NIST, ISO, regulatory)
03 How I help
I design Defender for Cloud and Sentinel deployments across multi-cloud estates, tune the policy framework, configure the analytic rules, and design the SOC operating model around them.
04 Expected deliverables
- Multi-cloud activation and policy framework
- Sentinel workspace and ingestion design
- Analytic rules and SOAR playbooks
- SOC operating model and runbooks
- Onboarding plan and cost optimisation