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This article summarizes what's new in security recommendations, alerts, and incidents in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. It includes information about new, modified, and deprecated recommendations and alerts.
This page is updated frequently with the latest recommendations and alerts in Defender for Cloud.
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New and updated recommendations, alerts, and incidents are added to the table in date order.
| Date | Type | State | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 5 | Recommendation | Upcoming Deprecation | The following recommendations will be deprecated: * Configure Microsoft Defender for Storage (Classic) to be enabled * Configure basic Microsoft Defender for Storage to be enabled (Activity Monitoring only) |
| January 29 | Recommendation | GA | We have further hardened the Running containers as root user should be avoided recommendation. What's Changing? We now require at least one range to be specified for the "Run as group rule". This change was needed to ensure containers will not get access to files owned by root, and groups with permissions to the root group. |
| November 19 | Deprecation | GA | MFA recommendations are deprecated as Azure now requires it.. The following recommendations are deprecated: * Accounts with read permissions on Azure resources should be MFA enabled * Accounts with write permissions on Azure resources should be MFA enabled * Accounts with owner permissions on Azure resources should be MFA enabled |
| October 30 | Recommendation | Upcoming Deprecation | MFA recommendations are deprecated as Azure now requires it.. The following recommendations will be deprecated: * Accounts with read permissions on Azure resources should be MFA enabled * Accounts with write permissions on Azure resources should be MFA enabled * Accounts with owner permissions on Azure resources should be MFA enabled |
| September 5 | Recommendation | GA | System updates should be installed on your machines (powered by Azure Update Manager) |
| September 5 | Recommendation | GA | Machines should be configured to periodically check for missing system updates |
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