# Microsoft Defender for Cloud

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/  
**Website:** https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/defender-for-cloud  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is Microsoft's unified cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that delivers cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection (CWPP) across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid/on-premises workloads. It provides security recommendations, secure score, regulatory compliance assessments, vulnerability management, and advanced threat protection for servers, containers, databases, storage, and more. The Defender for Cloud REST APIs are part of the Azure Resource Manager surface and authenticate via Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 tokens.

## Kin Score — 29.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 49.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 26.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **Microsoft Defender for Cloud REST API** — Azure Resource Manager REST API for managing Defender for Cloud assessments, alerts, recommendations, secure score, regulatory compliance, pricing/plans, security contacts, and ...
- **Microsoft Defender for Cloud Alerts API** — Security alert operations
- **Microsoft Defender for Cloud Assessments API** — Security assessment operations
- **Microsoft Defender for Cloud Pricings API** — Defender plan/pricing operations
- **Microsoft Defender for Cloud SecureScores API** — Secure score operations

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Defender For Cloud Agentic Access** — 15 operations · 5 acting

## Security (3)

- **Microsoft Defender For Cloud Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Microsoft Defender For Cloud Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Microsoft Defender For Cloud Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Cloud Security, CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP, Threat Protection, Compliance, Vulnerability Management, Azure

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.