Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Microsoft have introduced another member of the Defender family – Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM).

Certain features are available free of charge in any environment where Defender for Cloud is enabled, these include:

• Asset discovery
• Security recommendations & compliance with Microsoft benchmarks
• Secure score for posture

Paid features include:

• Attack path analysis
• Cloud security explorer
• Advanced threat hunting

and more.

Pricing

Defender CSPM protects all workloads across multi-cloud environments but is only chargeable for Server, Database, and Storage resources including:

• VMs
• Storage accounts
• OSS DBs
• SQL PaaS
• SQL Servers

Pricing starts from May 1, 2023 and is $15 per resource per month but there are discounts available for Defender for Cloud customers:

Current Defender for Cloud Customer	Automatic Discount	Defender CSPM Price
Defender for Servers P2	25%	$11.25/ Compute or Data workload / month
Defender for Containers	10%	$13.50/ Compute or Data workload / month
Defender for DBs / Defender for Storage	5%	$14.25/ Compute or Data workload / month

For more info and to see a complete list of free/paid features, head to the Microsoft site here – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/concept-cloud-security-posture-management#plan-pricing