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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

Workload protection plans (Servers, Storage, SQL, Containers, Key Vault, App Service, AI) and alert handling

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Posture management finds weaknesses before an attack; workload protection detects attacks as they happen. In Defender for Cloud, cloud workload protection comes as separate paid plans that you enable per subscription on the Environment settings > Defender plans page. Enabling at the subscription level covers existing and future resources of that type. Each plan uses signals suited to its workload.

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