Overview of Microsoft Defender for Containers

Microsoft Defender for Containers is the cloud-native solution for securing your containers.

This plan merges the capabilities of two existing Microsoft Defender plans, “Defender for Kubernetes” and “Defender for Container registries”, and provides new and improved features without deprecating any of the functionality from those plans.

On this page, you’ll learn how you can use Defender for Containers to improve, monitor, and maintain the security of your clusters, containers, and their applications.

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What are the benefits of Microsoft Defender for Containers?

Defender for Containers helps with the core aspects of container security:

• Environment hardening — Defender for Containers protects your Kubernetes clusters whether they’re running on Azure Kubernetes Service, Kubernetes on-prem / IaaS, or Amazon EKS. By continuously assessing clusters, Defender for Containers provides visibility into misconfigurations and guidelines to help mitigate identified threats. Learn more in Environment hardening through security…