Microsoft unveils a new cloud security benchmark, casts shade at AWS and GCP

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Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:03:22 +0000

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Microsofts latest cloud security benchmark now offers guidance for users of other public public clouds, like Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.

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Microsoft has generally released its multi-cloud security benchmark (MCSB)
for enterprise, but we cant decide whether its as much an advertisement for its Azure cloud storage or a boast that the security of competing services just isnt good enough.

Per The Register , the confusion comes from the fact that, while Microsoft is still providing advice on how to secure enterprise instances of Azure with MCSB , its now also doing the same for AWS, and will do the same for Google Cloud later in 2023.

That in itself could be considered reasonable, and even well-intentioned - except for the fact that the new MCSB v1 also offers automated monitoring features (172 separate checks, if youre counting) for AWS at this time. Microsoft and multicloud

The Register reported Jim Cheng, a senior software engineer at Microsoft, as saying that, because multicloud configurations are on the rise , its
important for the tech giant to be looking outward.

"[Aggregating security management], he claimed, often requires security teams to repeat the same implementation, monitoring, and assessments across different cloud environments and often for different compliance standards. This creates unnecessary overhead, cost, and effort." Read motr

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From this, its clear that Microsoft is pitching the MCSB as a gesture of goodwill, but its worth noting that its keen to bake it into Windows 11 as a value offering. The MCSB is enabled and governed in Microsoft Defender for Cloud, which the company are positioning as a centralized security dashboard.

Thats important, given that, once Google Cloud monitoring comes to the MCSB, organizations will be able to monitor three major cloud providers (comprising 66% of the market) all from one Microsoft-exclusive application. Heres our list of the best endpoint protection right now



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