Security News > 2022 > February > Microsoft Defender for Cloud can now protect Google Cloud resources
Microsoft announced today that Microsoft Defender for Cloud now also comes with native protection for Google Cloud Platform environments, providing security recommendations and threat detection across clouds.
Defender for Cloud is a security solution that monitors cloud services for threats, makes recommendations to harden security posture, and detects and warns of vulnerabilities in protected multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
"Today we're excited to announce that Microsoft Defender for Cloud now supports Google Cloud Platform with its native CSPM and CWP capabilities, without any dependencies on Google 1st party tools," said Gilad Elyashar, Microsoft Partner Group Program Manager.
This extended Microsoft Defender for Cloud container protection capabilities to support Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters and Defender for Server capabilities to AWS EC2.
After AWS and GCP onboarding, security teams now can get an overview of the security state of their org's multi-cloud environment, Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform, from a single place, on the Defender for Cloud portal's asset inventory page.
"With GCP support, Microsoft is now the only cloud provider with native multicloud protection for the industry's top three platforms - Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, and now GCP," said Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity.
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