Microsoft Defender for Cloud: General availability updates for November 2021

In November 2021, the following generally available updates and enhancements were made to Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center):

• Azure Security Center and Azure Defender become Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Native CSPM for AWS and threat protection for Amazon EKS, and AWS EC2
• Expanded security control assessments with Azure Security Benchmark v3
• Microsoft Sentinel connector's optional bi-directional alert synchronization released for general availability (GA)
• New recommendation to push Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) logs to Sentinel
• Recommendations mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework - released for general availability (GA)
• Microsoft Threat and Vulnerability Management added as vulnerability assessment solution - released for general availability (GA)
• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Linux now supported by Microsoft Defender for servers - released for general availability (GA)
• Auto provisioning of vulnerability assessment solutions released for general availability (GA)
• Software inventory filters in asset inventory released for general availability (GA)
• Inventory display of on-premises machines applies different template for resource name