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how do i install windoes defender on my PC and delet norton anti virus program

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-18T02:32:54.4+00:00
Zig Zag 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2025-06-19T06:36:22.2866667+00:00
VigneshwarDuvva-5247 1,990 Reputation points Moderator
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Defender for Endpoint Vulnerability Management Browser Extensions not populating

We recently turned on Defender Vulnerability Management add-on and applied the licenses to our users, but the add-on does not seem to be working properly. It's been 10 days that we have enabled the add-on but so far, only a few devices and a few…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-17T05:02:48.1166667+00:00
Chamali Hemapala 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-19T00:19:11.3566667+00:00
Kancharla Saiteja 5,080 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Azure VM with high severity vulnerabilities allows lateral movement to Critical Azure storage account with sensitive data

We're getting these alerts: Microsoft Defender for Cloud found potential attack path in your environment Azure VM with high severity vulnerabilities allows lateral movement to Critical Azure storage account with sensitive data "An Azure virtual…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-18T12:00:58.2033333+00:00
Jonathan McEwan 0 Reputation points
edited the question 2025-06-18T12:02:55.9266667+00:00
Jonathan McEwan 0 Reputation points
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The cloud defender recommendations are not showing for storage accounts

We have enabled Cloud Defender at the subscription level, however there are some resources in these that are not being covered correctly. One example: the storage account recommendations are not showing up. There are definitely some recommendations that…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-18T11:02:55.7433333+00:00
anthony bower 0 Reputation points
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Logs of MS defender for cloud for ACR

Hi All, We're trying to check logs for defender for cloud, specifically for acr image scans. Had a ticket raised to find out and the technical team does not seem to have access too which is very strange. We have thousands of images being scanned every…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-18T07:29:08.8833333+00:00
KISHNANI Vishal T 0 Reputation points
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I'm receiving defender alerts for a VM that I have removed

Im receiving microsoft defender alerts for a VM that I removed from my portal. I have deleted all resources related to that VM, but our system administrator keeps getting security alerts for malicious connectivity attempts to that removed VM. I can't…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-16T06:00:19.4433333+00:00
Kavindu Gunasekara 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-18T04:54:00.5766667+00:00
VigneshwarDuvva-5247 1,990 Reputation points Moderator
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

the recommendation named “ Kubernetes clusters should disable automounting API credentials” does not provide the option to create an exemption.

the recommendation named “Kubernetes clusters should disable automounting API credentials” does not provide the option to create an exemption. How can we resolve this?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-13T14:51:56.5766667+00:00
Brynel Peter Libera (CONVERGYS CORPORATION) 100 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
commented 2025-06-17T16:18:03.54+00:00
Brynel Peter Libera (CONVERGYS CORPORATION) 100 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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OpenSSL vulnerabilities in Defender for latest version Microsoft Products

My org has several OpenSSL vulnerabilities for OneDrive and Azure Disk Encryption. The CVEs are CVE-2024-4603, CVE-2024-4741, CVE-2024-5535, and Defender was said to fix inaccuracies with these last month (Sept. 2024).…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2024-10-15T20:07:36.4466667+00:00
Zach Hyman 130 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-17T08:25:37.1466667+00:00
Paul Brears 0 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Resolving EDR Configuration Issues for Deleted Virtual Machines

Hi there, I am currently looking to improve secure score. One of the recommendation is to Enable Endpoint Protection which has a secondary recommendation as follows: "EDR configuration issues should be resolved on virtual machines". However,…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-02T18:02:31.23+00:00
A Dahal 20 Reputation points
accepted 2025-06-16T16:05:02.2866667+00:00
A Dahal 20 Reputation points
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Defender Log to Event Hub is not been stream

I’ve configured Continuous Export to Event Hub, but no messages appear to be streaming. What steps should I take to troubleshoot this issue?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-16T03:44:19.4166667+00:00
Wei Ting Lau 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-16T11:20:29.9033333+00:00
Catherine Kyalo 1,855 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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False Positives on Attack Simulation Training - And how to cancel the training assigned to the user as a result of the false positive?

#1. Defender is reporting that users opened an attachment on an Attack Sumulation. Several users are claiming they did not open the attachment. We've been using Defender for a little over 2 years, and we used another tool prior for 5 years prior to…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2024-07-26T15:35:44.8933333+00:00
Jason 10 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-13T15:32:07.0566667+00:00
Chris 0 Reputation points
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Defender for Cloud indicates false an unhealthy resource

After switching Microsoft Defender for Cloud to Express configuration, one of the resources in my subscription is persistently flagged as unhealthy. However, when I drill into the resource in the Defender portal: The Findings tab is empty, showing no…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-07T18:56:27.24+00:00
Renato Marteleto 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-12T08:42:39.8333333+00:00
Rukmini 3,741 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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webhook enablement error

Hi, we have enabled to defender at blob storage level. We have assigned the eventgrid to capture the defender results in case of malware detection. We want to attach a webhook to eventgrid subscription to notify the malware errors in API. It throws error…

Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
An Azure service that stores unstructured data in the cloud as blobs.
3,181 questions
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2024-07-26T04:54:37.5533333+00:00
Gupta, Garima 20 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-11T09:43:24.3966667+00:00
AARON Anthony (OPR) 0 Reputation points
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defender for cloud apps

HI team, need your help with the below. I am going through the documentation of defender for cloud app M365 and i found that in order to import and study the logs, we will need a firewall, proxy etcc and based on that we can discover the IT shadow…

Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft which adds to and includes the Microsoft Office product line.
5,770 questions
Windows 10 Security
Windows 10 Security
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
3,070 questions
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2023-01-13T06:43:23.7266667+00:00
eg1995 1,156 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-11T03:27:14.7733333+00:00
GPGK 0 Reputation points
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OpenSSL Vulnerability Shown on Microsoft Defender for Cloud Dashboard - OneDrive affected app

An OpenSSL vulnerability has been flagged on one of our devices by Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The vulnerability has listed two dll files as the main culprits (both installed via OneDrive): libcrypto-3-x64.dll libssl-3-x64.dll The OneDrive version…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2024-10-31T12:38:50.5166667+00:00
Eric Wasike 65 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-10T17:19:48.21+00:00
Pauline Mbabu 840 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Defender for cloud DevOps Security: Is it mandatory to have Github Advanced security enabled to find code vulnerabiltiy in azure devops repos

We are exploring the feature Microsoft Security DevOps and noticed there are no code vulnerability listed in the defender except Iac templates. As per the following table, is it a must have to enable Github Advanced Security to discover code or secret…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-09T20:55:10.2+00:00
ahd 190 Reputation points
accepted 2025-06-10T13:26:56.5733333+00:00
ahd 190 Reputation points
2 answers

What's the exact definition of 'Timegenerated' in an Azure Resource Graph query output for Container Image Vulnerabilities?

When we run a query to find vulnerabilities in Container Images, there's a 'timegenerated' column in the query output. I've tried to find this documented somewhere, but can't, I've only found a document for Azure Monitor. Does this mean it's the last…

Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor
An Azure service that is used to collect, analyze, and act on telemetry data from Azure and on-premises environments.
3,632 questions
Azure Container Registry
Azure Container Registry
An Azure service that provides a registry of Docker and Open Container Initiative images.
503 questions
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2024-05-30T14:45:02.8466667+00:00
LaBombard, Lory 41 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-09T13:26:52.7966667+00:00
Jeff LoSpinoso 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

An unknown application will gain access to the user's mailbox on their behalf.

Hello, We use a third-party event analytics service in M365. This service has noticed suspicious activity. Some application with an IP address from the Microsoft stack gets access to employee mailboxes. The request is made on behalf of the employee to…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-06T17:25:56.09+00:00
Denys Pasternak 40 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-09T11:19:42.2566667+00:00
Denys Pasternak 40 Reputation points
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I want to change Microsoft Defender for Cloud Plan2 to Plan1 for cost saving

I want to change Microsoft Defender for Cloud Plan2 to plan1. If changes from plan2 to plan1 what is any impacts on server. What should i do, i want to install Defender for Server on on-premises servers.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-06-04T08:20:22.03+00:00
Zaw Myo Win 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-09T07:45:43.68+00:00
Gabriel-N 1,170 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
1 answer

How to deactivate Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in Azure for a specific resource group?

Hello community, We are currently using Microsoft Defender for Servers – Plan 2 in Azure, which is active and enforced at the subscription level. We have a use case where we need to exclude or deactivate Defender for Endpoint (MDE) for a specific…

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
An Azure service that provides threat protection for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender.
1,564 questions
asked 2025-04-30T15:16:33.4266667+00:00
Hotak, Mustafa 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-05T11:57:05.5133333+00:00
Catherine Kyalo 1,855 Reputation points Microsoft Employee