You have 100 Azure virtual machines that run Windows Server. The virtual machines are onboarded to Microsoft Defender for Cloud. You need to shut down a virtual machine automatically if Microsoft…

Azure Logic Apps provide a serverless platform to create automated workflows that can be triggered by specific events, including security alerts from Microsoft Defender for Cloud. By configuring a Logic App to listen for the 'Antimalware disabled in the virtual machine' alert, it can then execute a predefined action, such as invoking an Azure API call to shut down the affected virtual machine, thus automating the remediation process.

Workbooks are used for creating custom interactive reports and dashboards for data visualization and analysis within Microsoft Defender for Cloud, not for automating responses to security alerts.

A security policy in Microsoft Defender for Cloud defines security configuration requirements for resources and assesses compliance, but it does not automatically execute remediation actions like shutting down a VM in response to an alert.

Adaptive network hardening recommends network security group (NSG) rules to restrict network traffic to and from virtual machines, focusing on network-level security, not on automating responses to antimalware alerts.