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• Microsoft Defender for Cloud is an integrated cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that helps protect your applications and infrastructure across hybrid and multicloud environments. It delivers unified security across the application lifecycle with cloud security posture management (CSPM), workload protection, and DevOps security capabilities—empowering organizations to detect threats, reduce risk, and stay compliant from code to runtime.
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers both free and paid tiers, depending on the features and scope of protection you need.
• You can get started with a free 30-day trial of Defender for Cloud. After the trial, choose pay-as-you-go pricing or save up to 22% when you pre-purchase Microsoft Defender for Cloud Commit Units. Both free and paid tiers are available depending on your needs.
• Yes. Azure Security Center was renamed Microsoft Defender for Cloud in 2021 to better reflect its expanded capabilities and support for protecting hybrid and multicloud environments.
• Defender for Cloud is a unified cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that provides cloud security posture management, DevOps security management, and cloud workload protection across hybrid and multicloud environments. Defender for Cloud Apps is a comprehensive software-as-a-service (SaaS) security solution that enables organizations to prevent and protect against SaaS-related threats by combining SaaS app discovery, security posture management, app-to-app protection, and integrated threat protection.