Security News > 2022 > February > Microsoft adds GCP to Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender's tentacles have spread to include the Google Cloud Platform and beefed up visibility with a public preview of CloudKnox Permissions.

The addition of GCP was a while coming after Microsoft confirmed the arrival of Defender for Cloud on Amazon Web Services at its Ignite event in November.

Although Google Cloud is not short of security tools and best practices, there may be benefit for administrators in having a single place from where to manage their security posture, be it GCP, AWS, Azure or on-premises.

"It also makes Microsoft the only cloud provider who enables you to manage security centrally across clouds," the company said.

Although one can't help but consider alternatives, such as Sophos, which will also keep an eye on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, something at which Microsoft Defender for Cloud currently turns its nose up.

The platform is all about giving administrators a detailed look at permissions used over the cloud infrastructure and a handy Permissions Creep index, which gives a view on the gap between permissions granted and permissions used.

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