Onboarding Azure subscriptions, AWS accounts and GCP projects
How Azure subscriptions land in Defender for Cloud on their own, how to turn plans on at management group scope with Azure Policy, and how the AWS and GCP connectors work, what they create in the other cloud, and what breaks.
Overview: CSPM, CWPP and how the plans fit
Defender for Cloud as a CNAPP, the free foundational CSPM layer, the paid Defender CSPM plan, the per-workload Defender plans, how plans are switched on per subscription or connector, multicloud connectors, how alerts reach Defender XDR and Sentinel, pricing shape and roles.
Secure Score, recommendations, governance and regulatory compliance
How the classic secure score is weighted per control and subscription, how the risk-based Cloud Secure Score differs, what recommendations, exemptions and governance rules do to the number, how the regulatory compliance dashboard and its standards work, and how to pull all of it out with Resource Graph, REST, workbooks and Power BI for a client posture engagement.