Integration of Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s CSPM capabilities and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management into Exposure Management
Analysis / inference: Microsoft Security Exposure Management now integrates Defender for Cloud posture capabilities and Defender Vulnerability Management into a unified portal experience.
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- Microsoft Security Exposure Management - What's new · Limited verification
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- Microsoft Security
Section 01 · Summary analysis
Microsoft Security Exposure Management has been expanded to include a unified recommendations catalog, separated device misconfiguration and vulnerability workflows, risk-based cloud recommendations, side-by-side secure scores, hybrid attack path analysis, and migrated vulnerability management dashboards.
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Section 02 · Analysis
SecOps Signal analysisThe integration of Defender for Cloud CSPM and Defender Vulnerability Management into Microsoft Security Exposure Management consolidates security posture tracking, recommendations, and attack paths into a single portal experience at security.microsoft.com.
Security teams can now manage posture, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and hybrid attack paths from a single unified workspace within the Microsoft Defender portal, altering navigation and consolidated reporting workflows.
Section 03 · Recommended actions
- Explore the new unified recommendations catalog under the Exposure Management section in the Microsoft Defender portal.
- Familiarize teams with the separated device misconfigurations and vulnerabilities tabs.
- Review newly integrated hybrid attack paths and risk-based cloud recommendations to prioritize remediation.
- Verify access to the Exposure Management section within the Microsoft Defender portal (security.microsoft.com).
- Check the unified recommendations catalog to confirm visibility across devices, cloud, identity, SaaS apps, and data surfaces.
- Review separated workflows for device misconfigurations versus device vulnerabilities.
- Examine hybrid attack path analyses spanning on-premises and cloud contexts.