Microsoft Defender for Cloud now supports Google Cloud Platform

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Published onFebruary 23, 2022

published onFebruary 23, 2022

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Not every organization might be using a single cloud service in its day-to-day operations, and this can sometimes cause security issues. That’s why Microsofthas just announcedthat Microsoft Defender for Cloud now supports Google Cloud Platform.

With the news, Microsoft hopes that organizations can easily understand and manage their security postures across clouds, and help protect their workloads. More importantly, though, according to Microsoft, it makes Microsoft the only cloud provider that enables you to manage security natively across clouds. Some of the features and examples of benefits of this can be seen below, as explained by Microsoft’s Gilad Elyashar over on theMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Blog.

For those worried about the onboarding process, Microsoft says that it should be quite easy. Microsoft is using native Google APIs and is allowing security teams to security teams to connect the entire organization or individual projects to Microsoft Defender for Cloud without the need for any agents or additional Google services. You can learn more about this and see a deeper dive during Microsoft’s “What’s next in Security” event on February 24.

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