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Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (replaces Azure Security Engineer Associate / AZ-500) SC-500 · Domain 4: Manage and monitor security posture

Defender CSPM features: attack path analysis, cloud security explorer, agentless scanning, governance rules

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

A large environment can produce thousands of recommendations. Treating them all as equally urgent is impossible, so Defender CSPM adds context: which weaknesses actually connect into a path an attacker could use, and which resources matter most. All of this is built on the cloud security graph, a database of your resources, identities, network exposure, vulnerabilities, secrets and data sensitivity, plus the relationships among them.

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