Azure Security Center

Azure Security Center (now rebranded as Microsoft Defender for Cloud) is a unified cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) that provides comprehensive security management and advanced threat protection across hybrid and multicloud environments including Azure, AWS, and GCP. The platform performs continuous security assessments, vulnerability scanning, compliance monitoring against industry standards like CIS and PCI-DSS, and delivers threat detection using AI and machine learning to identify and respond to security risks across cloud workloads, containers, databases, and infrastructure.