Manage security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Part 1

Modern organizations rarely operate in a single cloud. Enterprise workloads are often distributed across Microsoft Azure, on-premises datacenters, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and hybrid environments.

This creates an important security challenge:
How do you maintain consistent visibility, governance, security posture management, and workload protection across environments managed by different cloud providers?

In this session, we will explore how Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides a unified security layer across hybrid and multicloud environments, helping security teams connect resources, assess security posture, extend workload protection, and manage risks from a centralized platform.

About the Session

Managing cloud security becomes increasingly complex when workloads are spread across different environments.

Organizations must be able to answer questions such as:

• Which cloud resources do we actually have?
• Are workloads across AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premises environments meeting our security requirements?
• Are there misconfigurations or vulnerabilities increasing our exposure?
• Are workloads protected consistently regardless of where they run?
• Can we manage security posture from a single platform?
• How do we securely connect external cloud environments without relying on long-lived credentials?

This session will demonstrate how Microsoft Defender for Cloud helps address these challenges by extending its security posture management and workload-protection capabilities beyond Azure.

What You Will Learn

By the end of the session, participants should understand how to:

• Explain the Microsoft Defender for Cloud multicloud connectivity model
• Understand federated authentication for AWS and GCP
• Plan a multicloud connector strategy
• Determine appropriate connector scope and permissions
• Connect on-premises servers through Azure Arc-enabled Servers
• Connect AWS accounts to Defender for Cloud
• Use CloudFormation as part of AWS connector deployment
• Connect GCP projects to Defender for Cloud
• Understand the GCloud-based deployment process
• Extend CSPM visibility across multiple cloud providers
• Extend workload protection to hybrid and multicloud resources
• Verify connector health and security coverage
• Build a more unified hybrid and multicloud security-management architecture

Who Should Attend?

This session is ideal for:

• Cloud and AI Security Bootcamp participants
• Cloud Security Engineers
• Azure Security Engineers
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud administrators
• Security Architects
• Cloud Architects
• SOC Analysts
• Infrastructure Engineers
• Hybrid Cloud Engineers
• AWS Security professionals
• Google Cloud Security professionals
• Azure Arc administrators
• DevSecOps Engineers
• Governance and Risk professionals
• Professionals preparing for the SC-500 certification
• Anyone responsible for securing hybrid or multicloud infrastructure

Why You Should Attend

Cloud security is no longer only about protecting Azure resources.

Security teams increasingly need to protect workloads distributed across:
Azure + AWS + Google Cloud + On-premises infrastructure

Without centralized visibility, organizations can end up with fragmented security operations, inconsistent controls, duplicated tooling, and blind spots.

This session will help participants understand how Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Arc, native AWS and GCP connectors, CSPM, and Cloud Workload Protection can work together to establish a more unified hybrid and multicloud security architecture.

Whether you are responsible for cloud architecture, security operations, hybrid infrastructure, governance, or preparing for the SC-500 Cloud and AI Security Engineer certification, this session will provide practical knowledge you can apply to enterprise environments.

Learn. Connect. Assess. Protect the Multicloud.