Protect network resources

Microsoft Defender for Cloud continuously analyzes the security state of your Azure resources for network security best practices. When Defender for Cloud identifies potential security vulnerabilities, it creates recommendations that guide you through the process of configuring the needed controls to harden and protect your resources.

Review Defender for Cloud networking recommendations.

This article addresses recommendations that apply to your Azure resources from a network security perspective. Networking recommendations center around next generation firewalls, Network Security Groups, JIT VM access, overly permissive inbound traffic rules, and more. For a list of networking recommendations and remediation actions, see Managing security recommendations in Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

The Networking features of Defender for Cloud include:

• Networking security recommendations

View your networking resources and their recommendations

From the asset inventory page, use the resource type filter to select the networking resources that you want to investigate:

Next steps

To learn more about recommendations that apply to other Azure resource types, see the following:

• Protecting your machines and applications in Microsoft Defender for Cloud