Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Servers (Plan 1 and Plan 2) — server-specific protection in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Covers plan selection, agentless vs agent-based scanning, MDE for Servers integration, file integrity monitoring (FIM via MDE), just-in-time VM access, vulnerability assessment, adaptive application controls, network hardening, and free data ingestion to Sentinel/Log Analytics. Applies to Azure VMs, Azure Arc-enabled servers (on-prem, AWS EC2, GCP Compute), and Azure VMSS. WHEN: Defender for Servers, MDE for Servers, server EDR, FIM, file integrity monitoring, JIT VM access, just-in-time access, agentless scanning servers, vulnerability assessment for VMs, hybrid server protection, Arc-enabled servers security, AWS EC2 in Defender for Cloud, GCP Compute in Defender for Cloud, server hardening Azure, Plan 1 vs Plan 2 servers. DO NOT USE for endpoint client devices (use defender-for-endpoint), generic Azure resource posture (use defender-for-cloud-hardening), or container hosts (use defender-for-containers).
How to install defender-for-servers?
vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/defender-for-servers
$npx -y skills add vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills --skill defender-for-serversInstalls into the current project.
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Use the skills in "https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.
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