Migrating from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (Servers) to Defender for Cloud Server Plan

Ever since Microsoft released the Microsoft defender for cloud server protection, there have been customers who would wonder what Server protection solution they should apply to their server fleet in the Microsoft Security “stack”.

For years, Defender for Endpoint for Servers served as the primary, and recommended way to go for server protection. But as focus changed to DevOps practices, better Cloud security, and multi-cloud strategies became options, the need for a Cloud-native, and multi-cloud solution that goes beyond server protection was evident.

As we know, in the security field, the needs go way beyond enforcement going through the need to assess, measure and mitigate risk configuration and other issues in your environment. This is why having cloud security posture management and cloud workload protection capabilities provided on the same platform is very attractive to Infra and Security managers.

With all that said, there are many customers who have been using Microsoft defender for Endpoint for Servers as their primary server security solution. MDE for servers’ licensing is based on a yearly subscription and it differs from the Microsoft defender for Cloud offering, which is consumption based (in which customers can pay for the…