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Evaluate security using Defender

Evaluate security using Defender

Defender for Cloud can also generate alerts for the environment that it's monitoring. These alerts can be viewed by severity or by the category that it falls into with the mitre attack FrameWork. Let's go back over to the Azure portal to see some of the sample security alerts generated by Defender for Cloud. We'll start on the overview page of Defender for Cloud, and then in the menu we'll select Security alerts. Here, in the list of security alerts, we'll actually close the menu to expand the browser, be able to see this a little bit better. But we have some sample alerts that have been created for sample applications, sample databases, and we can sort them either by severity, so here we have 78 active alerts. We've just scroll down the list. We can see a number of them are in the high severity, as well as one of the other columns, the mitre attack tactic that was used. So if we just select this phishing content hosted on Azure…

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