Start to plan multicloud protection

This article provides guidance to design a solution to secure and protect a multicloud environment with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Cloud solution and infrastructure architects, security architects and analysts, and others can use this guidance in designing a multicloud security solution.

As you capture your functional and technical requirements, the articles in this guide provide an overview of multicloud capabilities, planning guidance, and prerequisites.

Follow the multicloud security planning guides in order. The articles build on each other to help you make design decisions.

What should I get from this guide?

Use this guide as you design Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solutions to identify and remediate security misconfigurations. Design Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) solutions for protecting workloads such as servers, databases, and containers, for multicloud environments. After you read the articles in this guide, you should have answers to the following questions:

• What questions should I ask and answer as I design my multicloud solution?
• What steps do I need to complete to design a solution?
• What technologies and capabilities are available to me?
• What trade-offs do I need to consider?

Multicloud protection challenges

When organizations span multiple cloud providers, it becomes increasingly complex to centralize security and for security teams to work in multiple environments with multiple vendors.

Defender for Cloud helps you to protect your multicloud environment by strengthening your security posture and protecting your workloads. Defender for Cloud provides a single dashboard to manage protection for all environments.

Before you begin

Before working through these articles, you should have a basic understanding of Azure, Defender for Cloud, Azure Arc, and your multicloud AWS/GCP environment.

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