Security News > 2022 > February > Microsoft’s multicloud security is about connecting the dots

In recent years, Microsoft's security offerings have shifted from security for Microsoft products and services to security from Microsoft for the full range of products and services an enterprise needs to protect.

Last year Microsoft Defender for Cloud added features for managing and monitoring security settings on AWS as well as on Azure; now it covers GCP as well, with a dashboard showing your security settings and whether you're following best practices across all three clouds.

"An increasing number of these things that we surface to the security teams are things where the security team themselves don't own the resource that needs to change."

With the ever-increasing numbers of attacks, prioritizing is more important than ever, and using automation to apply security policies can make security engineers more productive by handling the basics and leaving them to analyze and understand the more unusual issues, Doerr suggested.

"How do we raise the minimum bar of competence an attacker has to have to be a problem to the average enterprise out there? A lot of that is about simplicity and automation and not requiring that you hire seven top-notch security people to go design a security programme from scratch. What we're doing is a step in that direction with one multi-cloud solution: pick your policy, pick how you want to run your security team, and we're going to automate a lot of that stuff."

Microsoft's DART helps customers with security incidents, so he sees similar problems in far too many organizations that automation could help with, whether it's the new multi-cloud services or following baseline security recommendations for Office 365.

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