Microsoft Defender for Cloud Gets Data and AI Security Dashboard for Proactive Threat Management
Microsoft Defender for Cloud has introduced the Data and AI security dashboard in public preview.
Published: Feb 25, 2025
Key Takeaways:
- Microsoft’s new Data and AI security dashboard for Defender for Cloud provides a unified platform to track, manage, and protect data and AI resources.
- The dashboard highlights critical security risks, attack paths, and internet-exposed resources.
- organizations can strengthen their overall security posture and ensure compliance.
Microsoft has launched a new Data and AI security dashboard in public preview for its Defender for Cloud solution. This new dashboard offers a centralized platform to help organizations monitor and manage data and AI resources, along with their associated risks and protection status.
“The dashboard highlights critical security issues, resources needing attention, and internet-exposed resources, enabling proactive risk mitigation. Additionally, it provides insights into sensitive data within data resources and AI workloads, strengthening the overall security posture,” Microsoft explained.
What are the benefits of the Data and AI security dashboard?
Microsoft highlighted various benefits of this new Data and AI security dashboard for Defender for Cloud customers. It enables IT admins to view the most critical data and AI security issues within an organization. This feature helps to make informed decisions and take proactive measures to address security risks.
The new Data and AI security dashboard provides a centralized hub to help IT admins view all their data and AI resources. Moreover, it offers detailed insights into data storage locations and resource types. This dashboard also helps to evaluate how well their data and AI resources are protected against threats.
With this new dashboard, administrators can view attack paths, recommendations, and data threat analysis. They can also take actions to reduce sophisticated threats and enhance the overall security posture of their organization.
Lastly, the security explorer helps to discover valuable insights about their data and AI resources. This new dashboard also makes it easier to locate and summarize important and sensitive data within their cloud and AI assets.
Microsoft notes that the new Data and AI security dashboard is available at the subscription level, and the information displayed on the dashboard is based on the data and AI resources customers have within their subscriptions. Administrators will need to enable the several plans to gain full access to the dashboard. These include the Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) plan, Defender CSPM’s extension sensitive data discovery, Defender for Storage, Defender for Databases, and threat protection for AI workloads.