Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) integration

🚨 The Signal: Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager now integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, extending compliance posture assessment to Azure, GCP, and AWS. This centralises multi-cloud compliance visibility and resource-level testing.

The Impact

Security and compliance teams gain unified visibility into multi-cloud compliance, reducing manual effort and improving risk identification.

  • Security teams: Improved visibility into multi-cloud compliance risks.
  • Compliance teams: Streamlined reporting and attestation for hybrid environments.
  • Cloud architects: Better understanding of security posture across cloud platforms.

The Action

  1. Navigate to Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager.
  2. Review 'Connectors' to ensure Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration is active.
  3. Explore new assessments and recommendations for Azure, GCP, and AWS resources.
  4. Configure custom assessments or policies based on multi-cloud compliance requirements.

Domain: Purview · Impact: medium · Workload: Microsoft Purview