Monthly News - September 2024

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Monthly news September 2024 Edition

This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month. In this edition, we are looking at all the goodness from August 2024.

Legend: Product videos Webcasts (recordings) Docs on Microsoft Blogs on Microsoft GitHub External content Product improvements Announcements

Microsoft Defender for Cloud The new version of File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) based on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is now in public preview. It's part of Defender for Servers Plan 2. Click here for more information on FIM based on MDE. Enable the auto-provisioning process for Defender for SQL across multiple subscriptions simultaneously using a PowerShell script. This process applies to SQL servers hosted on Azure VMs, on-premises environments, and Azure Arc-enabled SQL servers. Learn more about enabling this plan at scale here. In August, our team published the following blog posts we would like to share: Leveraging Azure native tools to hunt Kubernetes security issues part 1 Leveraging Azure native tools to hunt Kubernetes security issues part 2 Leveraging Azure native tools to hunt Kubernetes security issues part 3 Detect Container Drift with Microsoft Defender for Containers Defender for Storage price calculation workbook update helps you estimate the cost of enabling Microsoft Defender for Storage and considers all storage accounts with and without Microsoft Defender for Storage enabled across the selected scope. The update also takes malware scanning into consideration. Click here for more info on the Defender for Storage cost estimation workbook Discover how other organizations successfully use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their cloud workloads. This month we are featuring QNET, a subsidiary of QI Group, that specializes in wellness and lifestyle products, that uses Microsoft Security products, including Defender for Cloud to specifically infuse their DevOps pipeline to measure potential exposure and give security teams a north start to work towards and more. Watch new episodes of the Defender for Cloud in the Field show to learn about: Binary drift detection in Defender for Containers

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