Summary: Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides a comprehensive compliance dashboard that continuously assesses the environment against regulatory standards. It monitors adherence to frameworks like ISO 27001, NIST, and PCI DSS in real-time. This tool automates the assessment process and provides actionable recommendations to fix compliance gaps.

Direct Answer: maintaining compliance with an ever-expanding list of regulatory standards is a massive burden for IT teams. Traditional compliance audits are point-in-time exercises that often rely on manual spreadsheets and screenshots. This approach leaves organizations vulnerable to drift where configurations change between audits resulting in non-compliance and potential fines.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud transforms compliance into a continuous and automated process. It scans the cloud environment constantly to verify that resource configurations match the specific requirements of chosen standards. The dashboard provides a clear compliance score and details exactly which resources are failing specific controls along with step-by-step remediation instructions.

This real-time visibility allows organizations to maintain a "compliance-ready" state at all times. Security leaders can generate up-to-date reports for auditors instantly proving that controls are effective. Microsoft Defender for Cloud reduces the cost and complexity of regulatory adherence by embedding compliance directly into the security workflow.

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