Prioritize what matters. Secure what counts.
We’re excited to announce a powerful new integration between Mend.io and Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC)—a step forward in our mission to bring intelligent, actionable, and context-rich open source security directly into the cloud security workflow.
As organizations embrace cloud-native architectures, security teams face the growing challenge of identifying and prioritizing the open source software risks that truly matter. Our new integration meets that challenge head-on—by embedding Mend.io’s advanced Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and reachability analysis directly within Microsoft’s CNAPP platform.
What’s new?
This integration enables Defender for Cloud users to:
- See Mend.io SCA findings directly in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud security explorer, ensuring seamless visibility without switching tools.
- Surface metadata on reachable dependencies, making it easy to differentiate exploitable vulnerabilities from theoretical ones.
- Visualize attack paths with runtime context, thanks to the integration of Mend.io’s reachability data into MDC’s attack path graph.
Why it matters
Prioritize based on exploitability
Traditional vulnerability lists are noisy. Our reachability analysis filters out false positives and highlights which components are actually exploitable—right inside Defender for Cloud. That means security and runtime teams can stop chasing ghosts and start fixing what matters.
See the full picture, from code to cloud
This integration allows you to trace a vulnerability’s path from an open source library to a running container or Kubernetes pod. This is a game-changer for threat modeling and incident response.
Better collaboration across teams
By embedding runtime context and reachability data into a single view, security, development, and DevOps teams gain a shared understanding of risk while reducing friction and speeding up remediation.
Who benefits?
- Security Teams (SecOps/AppSec) gain smarter prioritization, better context for risk assessment, and improved collaboration.
- Runtime Teams (SREs, DevOps) can focus on real risks rather than hypothetical ones, cutting alert fatigue and response time.
- Development Teams get early visibility into exploitable vulnerabilities in their CI/CD pipeline—helping them fix issues before they reach production.
A smarter way to secure the cloud
Mend.io’s integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud reflects a growing market demand for smarter, context-aware security solutions. We’re proud to partner with Microsoft to help customers tackle OSS vulnerabilities more effectively wherever they are in the cloud lifecycle.
“This integration is about empowering security and DevOps teams to focus on what truly matters. By bringing Mend.io’s reachability intelligence into Microsoft Defender for Cloud, we’re helping organizations cut through the noise and take decisive action on real risks—faster and more effectively than ever before.”
— Rami Sass, CEO and Co-founder, Mend.io
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Mend authored by Mend.io Communications. Read the original post at: https://www.mend.io/blog/introducing-mends-integration-with-microsoft-defender-for-cloud/
