Welcome to another exciting episode of Late Night Brew with Robert Buktenica and Jonathan Hazelden! In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into the world of cybersecurity as we discuss how Microsoft’s Defender for Cloud can secure your cloud workloads and 365 tenant. So, grab your favorite brew, sit back, and join Robert and Jon as they unravel the secrets of Defender for Cloud in this episode of Late Night Brew.
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00:07 – Introduction
00:36 – The Brew
01:23 – How can Defender secure your Cloud or 365 tenant?
03:38 – What are some of the benefits of adopting Defender for Cloud?
TRANSCRIPT
Introduction
Robert Buktenica: Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Late Night Brew, where we talk the brews first, then we get around what we’re supposed to after the fact. Joining me, once again, is Jon Hazelden. Jon, welcome back.
Jonathan Hazelden: Hi, Buck, glad to be back, it’s been a few weeks.
Robert: I know, it’s been a while. It’s terrible. It’s been far too long, in my opinion. Now, before we get into today’s episode, diving into Defender for Cloud.
The Brew
Robert: You know the drill very well by now, Sir, what brew are you having with me?
Jonathan: This time, I’ve gone back to my trustee, Angelo Poretti, Italian lager. It’s basically all I drink, but it’s my go-to.
Robert: I can’t knock knowing what you like and sticking with it. Not everyone can be crazy like me and go, “Oh, that sounds different.” As such, I of course have a new beer, it is Guava Cart. It’s wheat with guava and passion fruit. Actually, quite nice. Not as passion fruity as I would like, but yeah.
Jonathan: Sounds like a fruit drink.
Robert: You know, it’s more wheat beer than fruit.
Jonathan: Okay.
Robert: I do have one, maybe I’ll drink it on the next one. It’s interestingly blueberry forward and then ends at wheat. It’s almost disconcerting.
Jonathan: Wow
How can Defender secure your Cloud or 365 tenant?
Robert: Anyway, so how can Defender secure your Cloud or secure your 365 tenant?
Jonathan: With Defender for Cloud, in terms of Microsoft, Defender for Cloud, it’s really for your Cloud workloads, specifically, Microsoft Azure, but also covers multicloud, so Google, AWS, et cetera.
It’s really focused on Cloud workload, so that might be virtual machines. In Azure, that might be container instances, that might be web applications, databases, storage, et cetera. Those are the things that it is able to protect, but it also covers hybrid scenarios so you can also protect your on-premise servers with Defender for Cloud.
Like in the real world, a lot of companies, a lot of organisations would be in a hybrid environment, right? Like on-prem, they’re moving to Azure. They have some footprints on Azure workloads including servers and other past servers, potentially. Defender for Cloud is a way to protect those on-prem servers and the Cloud at the same time using one sort of unified management portal.
Robert: Now, for those on-prem servers, are there any, and maybe this is getting too into the weeds for this, are there any boundaries? I guess it might be easier of what’s not available to be secured with those agents.
Jonathan: Mostly, it’s from premise servers, also Defender. Well, Defender for identity integrates with on-premise domain controllers to provide that kind of hybrid identity solution.
What are some of the benefits of adopting Defender for Cloud?
Robert: All right, awesome. Now, that’s a really, really big potential security blanket, as it were. And I know the question sitting is, what are some of the benefits, what’s some deep dive benefits of adopting, especially Defender for Cloud, and the potential far reaching?
Jonathan: Yes, I guess the main benefit, really, is just to have the single pane of glass, that unified management portal where you can view all your workloads. One of the other key features is Defender for Cloud does integrate with Defender for Endpoint.
You may have on-premise servers that are onboarded to Defender for Endpoint that can integrate with Defender for Cloud. With Defender for Cloud, you also get enhanced capabilities depending on the licensing plan that you have, P1 or P2.
Robert: Naturally.
Jonathan: Yes, of course.
Robert: Microsoft doing there awesome thing of tiered services which everyone’s going to a subscription model. I can’t bash Microsoft in it of itself.
Jonathan: Yes.
Robert: All right, well, that wraps up our time today. Stay tuned, there’s more delicious Defender content coming. Jon, as always, thank you very much for your time today, appreciate it.
Jonathan: No problem.
Robert: Till next time, cheers.
Jonathan: Thanks for having me.
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