Our MXDR services use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to optimise and protect your multi-cloud environments. We leverage its threat protection, detection and response, and cloud security posture management capabilities to keep you secure.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect your multi-cloud environments
Overview
Stay secure across your clouds
Cloud computing offers many new possibilities for business, but it needs to be secure.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud protects your multi-cloud environments, such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform and AWS.
With Microsoft Defender for Cloud, you can detect advanced threats for your cloud workloads, and manage your multi-cloud security posture, including alerting of configuration changes that could unintentionally weaken security, or potential attack paths that could be exploited.
As a Microsoft-Verified MXDR provider and member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), Chorus can help you protect your organisation and cloud environments with Microsoft XDR technology.
Ready to secure your cloud usage? Let’s get started.
Global IT DirectorBy working with Chorus as our strategic security partner, we feel confident that we are making best use of Microsoft technologies with a Zero Trust security model.
How we can help
Experts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is integrated with Microsoft Defender XDR, providing extensive Extended Detection and Response (XDR) capabilities.
Our Microsoft-focused managed security services leverage these technologies and Microsoft Sentinel to deliver 24x7x365 cyber security:
Benefits of Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud enables you to implement a modern cloud or hybrid security posture, using Zero Trust best practices. It offers protection for your workloads and detects weaknesses in your cloud configurations with actionable remedial recommendations. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a core component of our managed XDR services, built on Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM & SOAR).
Workload protections
Microsoft Defender of Cloud includes a wide range of tools, providing advanced threat protection capabilities across areas such as servers, databases, app service, storage, containers, key vault, APIs, resource manager and many more.
Cloud security posture management
We can use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to improve your security posture management. Defender for Cloud enables us to identify vulnerabilities, detect insecure changes in your environments, and rapidly remediate any issues.
Cloud compliance tools
Microsoft Defender for Cloud helps ensure regulatory compliance, enabling you to apply compliance policies to your environments and monitor how your cloud usage aligns with various benchmarks and standards.
Multi-cloud protection
Defender for Cloud is a unified multi-cloud platform that allows you to manage and secure your cloud environments across cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
On-premises to cloud
Want to apply the power of cloud security to your on-premises servers? We use Azure Arc to bring servers into Azure and apply the advanced security capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Cloud to your on-premises infrastructure.
Extended Detection & Response (XDR)
We combine Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Defender XDR with Microsoft Sentinel, to deliver 24x7x365 managed XDR services with comprehensive coverage across identities, endpoints, data, apps, infrastructure and network.
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Workload protections
Microsoft Defender of Cloud includes a wide range of tools, providing advanced threat protection capabilities across areas such as servers, databases, app service, storage, containers, key vault, APIs, resource manager and many more.
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Cloud security posture management
We can use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to improve your security posture management. Defender for Cloud enables us to identify vulnerabilities, detect insecure changes in your environments, and rapidly remediate any issues.
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Cloud compliance tools
Microsoft Defender for Cloud helps ensure regulatory compliance, enabling you to apply compliance policies to your environments and monitor how your cloud usage aligns with various benchmarks and standards.
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Multi-cloud protection
Defender for Cloud is a unified multi-cloud platform that allows you to manage and secure your cloud environments across cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
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On-premises to cloud
Want to apply the power of cloud security to your on-premises servers? We use Azure Arc to bring servers into Azure and apply the advanced security capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Cloud to your on-premises infrastructure.
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Extended Detection & Response (XDR)
We combine Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Defender XDR with Microsoft Sentinel, to deliver 24x7x365 managed XDR services with comprehensive coverage across identities, endpoints, data, apps, infrastructure and network.
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Why Chorus
Experts in Microsoft XDR
We’re members of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association with Microsoft Verified MXDR services. When you work with Chorus, you can be confident that you’ll be working with some of the best in the business. We’re experts in the Microsoft XDR technology stack, combining Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Defender XDR with Microsoft Sentinel to deliver managed security services of the highest quality.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
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Why do I need Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud gives you detailed insights into the activities taking place across your cloud environments. It’s incredibly easy for admins to misconfigure things in the cloud, or to make an insecure mistake, such as opening an internet-facing port up to a virtual machine. This could allow attackers to access this machine over the internet in seconds.
If someone does this in your organisation, you’d want to know about it. Microsoft Defender for Cloud gives you the capabilities to detect this sort of vulnerability and remedy it immediately, either with automation or human intervention.
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Can I use Microsoft Defender for Cloud if my servers are on-prem?
Yes, we can use Azure Arc to bring on-premises servers into Azure and apply the powerful capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Cloud to them.
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What is Cloud Security Posture management (CSPM)?
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) in Microsoft Defender for Cloud makes managing cloud environments much easier and more secure. This is especially valuable for organisations that don’t have much in-house security expertise.
CSPM provides you with an actionable list of alerts and recommendations, detailing exactly what you need to do to remedy vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and improve your security. It also gives you a range of universal benchmarks and policies which any organisation can align to, ensuring a good level of security is in place.
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How does Microsoft Defender for Cloud pricing and licensing work?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is all billed through Azure consumption.
For example, if you turned on Defender for Servers, which is one of the workload protections in Defender for Cloud, it will bill you per server per month.
Other defender plans might be billed on a different basis, such as transactions. For example, Defender for Storage will bill you for every 10,000 transactions.
