You have an Azure subscription that has Microsoft Defender for Cloud enabled. You have 50 Azure virtual machines that run Windows Server. You need to ensure that any security exploits detected on the

Microsoft Defender for Cloud integrates with vulnerability assessment solutions, such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's threat and vulnerability management (TVM), to discover, assess, and prioritize vulnerabilities and exploits on virtual machines. Enabling 'Vulnerability assessment for machines' (which might deploy a relevant agent or integrate with existing security tools) is the mechanism that allows Defender for Cloud to collect and display detected security exploits, thereby fulfilling the requirement.

The Microsoft Dependency agent is used by Azure Monitor's Service Map feature to discover application components and dependencies on virtual machines, not for forwarding security exploit detections.

The Log Analytics agent for Azure VMs primarily collects performance metrics, event logs, and custom logs for Azure Monitor, and while it's a prerequisite for some Defender for Cloud features, it doesn't directly forward security exploit findings itself.

The Guest Configuration agent, part of Azure Policy, is used for auditing and configuring operating system settings within virtual machines against predefined baselines, but it does not forward security exploit detections to Defender for Cloud.