Azure Defender

Boost the security status of your cloud resources and defend against cyber threats.

Get a Quote

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender strengthens the security status of your cloud resources and protects workloads running in Azure, hybrid and other cloud platforms. The solution provides the tools needed to harden your resources, monitor your security, protect against cyber-attacks and streamline security management.

Natively integrated, Defender also deploys easily and provides you with simple auto-provisioning so your resources are secured by default.

Automate Your Data Security with Azure Defender

To support ongoing management of your cloud and on-premise security, Defender allows you to continually assess your environment and defend against threats to your workloads and assets. Implement next-generation cloud defence that constantly monitors and reports back on your security.

With Azure Defender from Elite, you have access to our expert team who can provide you with advice on how to get the most out of your solution.

Get a Quote

Key Features

Instantly view the security of your environment and take actions to boost it further.

Security score

A single security score allows you to immediately understand your current security status. The higher the score, the lower the identified risk level.

Security recommendations

Customised and prioritised actions improve your security automatically. Where human intervention is needed, recommendations can be implemented by following the simple steps provided.

Security alerts

With enhanced security features enabled, you can detect threats to your resources and workloads. Alerts appear in the Azure portal and can be sent to the relevant personnel in your business.

Optimise and improve security

The security of new resources deployed across your workloads is continually assessed. If security isn’t optimised, you get a prioritised list of actions to undertake that ensures it will be.

Business Benefits

Relax in the knowledge your business is protect with Elite

Continuous Assessment

By understanding your current security status you can either relax in the knowledge that you’re protected, or take the actions needed to ensure you are.

Blanket Security

Your connected resources and services are critical to business performance. Defender forms a robust layer around them and immediately alerts you to any threat.

Defend Your Assets

Defender doesn’t just detect threats to your resources and services before alerting you, it either automatically resolves them or gives you detailed instructions on how to resolve them yourself.

Know what applications to run on your computer with Elite

Advanced Threat Protection

For VMs, SQL databases, web applications, and more, added protections are available such as the creation of ‘allow lists’ for what applications can run on your machines.

Defend Resources on Other Clouds

Defender can protect resources in other clouds. For example, if you've connected an AWS account to an Azure subscription, you can seamlessly enable a range of extra protections.

We had a real desire to move our systems and data into Azure and Elite enabled this to happen. The transition from old to new was seamless and by using the team at Elite Group we were able to literally work our way through it as if they were members of my own team and that’s the key part, it felt like I was working with them.

Matthew Brown | IT Manager

Read Case Study

Elite Green Certified Partner

As part of our aim to be a sustainable company, we are committed to partnering with brands whose business practices align with this aim. Microsoft’s sustainable practices include: aiming to be carbon negative by 2030, a commitment to having 100% of their electricity consumption matched by zero-carbon energy purchases and aiming to be one of the largest purchasers of renewable energy in the world. Partnering with WatchGuard and Microsoft contributes to our ability to operate in a more sustainable way.

Your Experience is Our Priority

Customer Ratings

0

Of customers rated our service as either good or excellent.

Customer Satisfaction

0

Above the industry average CSAT Score.

Response Time

0

mins

You can rely on a quick answer to your support request.

Why Choose Us?

Elite are experts in helping businesses collaborate and communicate in a secure, productive, and profitable way, wherever you or your employees are located.

Security

Ensure you have the highest level of defence for your cloud services even if they are not in Azure.

Collaboration

With notifications of security alerts, the right people can work collaboratively with speed and precision to find a solution.

Productivity

Cut time-consuming tasks by setting security policies and applying configuration standards across multiple resources quickly through a single pane of glass.

Profitability

Reduce business and commercial risks to reputation and revenues with best-in-class defence for your cloud applications and sensitive data.

Interested in Azure Defender?

Whether you're looking to get the ball rolling with Azure Defender from Elite or you're in need of advice on what is the best option for you, our team is here to help. Fill in our contact form and one of our specialists will be in touch!

Azure Defender Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft Defender monitors the following Azure resources: Virtual machines (VMs) (including Cloud Services), VM scale sets and Multiple PaaS solutions.

Microsoft Defender analyses the security state of your Azure resources. When potential security vulnerabilities are identified, recommendations are created. The recommendations guide you through the process of configuring the needed control.

Examples are: Provisioning of anti-malware to help identify and remove malicious software, provisioning of a firewall to defend against attacks targeting your web applications, and deploying missing system updates.

The Microsoft Security Response Centre (MSRC) performs select security monitoring of the Azure network and infrastructure and receives threat intelligence and abuse complaints from third parties.

When MSRC becomes aware that your data has been accessed by an unlawful or unauthorised party or that an employee’s use of Azure does not comply with the terms for Acceptable Use, a security incident manager notifies you.

Notification is typically received by email to the security contacts specified in Microsoft Defender or the Azure subscription owner if a security contact is not specified.

Defender is an Azure service that continuously monitors your Azure environment and applies analytics to detect a wide range of potentially malicious activity. These detections are communicated as security alerts in the workload protection dashboard.

A security initiative defines the set of controls that are recommended for resources within your subscription. In Microsoft Defender you assign initiatives for your Azure subscriptions according to your company's security requirements and the type of applications or sensitivity of the data in each subscription.

Microsoft Defender automatically collects, analyses and combines log data from your Azure resources, the network and partner solutions like anti-malware and firewalls. When threats are detected, a security alert is created.

Examples include detection of: Compromised VMs communicating with known malicious IP addresses, advanced malware detected using Windows error reporting, brute force attacks against VMs.