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1 | 1 | --- |
2 | | -title: Workload protection dashboard and its features |
3 | | -description: Learn about the features of Microsoft Defender for Cloud's workload protection dashboard |
| 2 | +title: Review workload protection in Microsoft Defender for Cloud |
| 3 | +description: Review workload protection in the Workload protections dashboard in Microsoft Defender for Cloud |
4 | 4 | ms.topic: how-to |
5 | 5 | ms.date: 01/09/2023 |
6 | 6 | --- |
7 | 7 |
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8 | | -# The workload protections dashboard |
| 8 | +# Review workload protection |
9 | 9 |
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10 | | -This dashboard provides: |
| 10 | +Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides unified view into threat detection and protection for protected resources with the interactive **Workload protections** dashboard. |
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12 | | -- Visibility into your Microsoft Defender for Cloud coverage across your different resource types. |
13 | | - |
14 | | -- Links to configure advanced threat protection capabilities. |
15 | | - |
16 | | -- The onboarding state and agent installation. |
| 12 | +:::image type="content" source="./media/workload-protections-dashboard/sample-defender-dashboard-numbered.png" alt-text="An example of Defender for Cloud's workload protections dashboard." lightbox="./media/workload-protections-dashboard/sample-defender-dashboard-numbered.png"::: |
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18 | | -- Threat detection alerts. |
| 14 | +## Defender for Cloud coverage |
19 | 15 |
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20 | | -To access the workload protections dashboard, select **Workload protections** from the Cloud Security section of Defender for Cloud's menu. |
| 16 | +In the **Defender for Cloud coverage** section of the dashboard, you can see the resources types in your subscription that are eligible for protection by Defender for Cloud. Wherever relevant, you can upgrade here as well. If you want to upgrade all possible eligible resources, select **Upgrade all**. |
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22 | | -## What's shown on the dashboard? |
| 18 | +## Security alerts |
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24 | | -:::image type="content" source="./media/workload-protections-dashboard/sample-defender-dashboard-numbered.png" alt-text="An example of Defender for Cloud's workload protections dashboard." lightbox="./media/workload-protections-dashboard/sample-defender-dashboard-numbered.png"::: |
| 20 | +The **Security alerts** section shows alerts. When Defender for Cloud detects a threat in any area of your environment, it generates an alert. These alerts describe details of the affected resources, suggested remediation steps, and in some cases an option to trigger a logic app in response. Selecting anywhere in this graph opens the **Security alerts page**. |
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26 | | -The dashboard includes the following sections: |
| 22 | +## Advanced protection |
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28 | | -1. **Microsoft Defender for Cloud coverage** - Here you can see the resources types that's in your subscription and eligible for protection by Defender for Cloud. Wherever relevant, you can upgrade here as well. If you want to upgrade all possible eligible resources, select **Upgrade all**. |
| 24 | +Defender for Cloud includes many advanced threat protection capabilities for virtual machines, SQL databases, containers, web applications, your network, and more. In this advanced protection section, you can see the status of the resources in your selected subscriptions for each of these protections. Select any of them to go directly to the configuration area for that protection type. |
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30 | | -2. **Security alerts** - When Defender for Cloud detects a threat in any area of your environment, it generates an alert. These alerts describe details of the affected resources, suggested remediation steps, and in some cases an option to trigger a logic app in response. Selecting anywhere in this graph opens the **Security alerts page**. |
| 26 | +## Insights |
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32 | | -3. **Advanced protection** - Defender for Cloud includes many advanced threat protection capabilities for virtual machines, SQL databases, containers, web applications, your network, and more. In this advanced protection section, you can see the status of the resources in your selected subscriptions for each of these protections. Select any of them to go directly to the configuration area for that protection type. |
| 28 | +Insights provide you with news, suggested reading, and high priority alerts that are relevant in your environment. |
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34 | | -4. **Insights** - This rolling pane of news, suggested reading, and high priority alerts gives Defender for Cloud's insights into pressing security matters that are relevant to you and your subscription. Whether it's a list of high severity CVEs discovered on your VMs by a vulnerability analysis tool, or a new blog post by a member of the Defender for Cloud team, you'll find it here in the Insights panel. |
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36 | 31 | ## Next steps |
37 | 32 |
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38 | | -In this article, you learned about the workload protections dashboard. |
39 | | - |
40 | | -> [!div class="nextstepaction"] |
41 | | -> [Enable enhanced protections](enable-enhanced-security.md) |
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43 | | -Learn more about the [advanced protections provided by the Defender plans](defender-for-cloud-introduction.md#protect-cloud-workloads). |
| 33 | +[Learn about](defender-for-cloud-introduction.md) workloads you can protect in Defender for Cloud |
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