Many organisations treat cloud security posture as a periodic audit exercise — a spreadsheet reviewed once a quarter. This session makes the case for continuous posture management and shows exactly how to build it using Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

We'll start by demystifying Secure Score: how it's calculated, why not all recommendations carry equal weight, and how to build a prioritised remediation roadmap instead of chasing every finding indiscriminately. From there, we'll explore the regulatory compliance dashboards, showing how Defender for Cloud maps controls to frameworks like ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and NIST — a significant time-saver for compliance-driven organisations.

The session then moves into the Defender CSPM plan specifically, covering agentless scanning, attack path analysis, and how these capabilities help security teams understand not just "what's misconfigured" but "what's actually exploitable" given the broader environment. We close with a practical discussion on shifting posture management left — integrating policy checks into CI/CD pipelines so misconfigurations are caught before deployment rather than after.