You create an Azure subscription. You enable Azure Defender for the subscription. You need to use Azure Defender to protect on-premises computers. What should you do on the on-premises computers?

The correct answer is A. Install the Log Analytics agent. Security Center collects data from your Azure virtual machines (VMs), virtual machine scale sets, IaaS containers, and non-Azure (including on-premises) machines to monitor for security vulnerabilities and threats. Data is collected using: The Log Analytics agent, which reads…

Submitted by tarun92· Apr 18, 2026Manage threat mitigation using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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Options

AInstall the Log Analytics agent.
BInstall the Dependency agent.
CConfigure the Hybrid Runbook Worker role.
DInstall the Connected Machine agent.

How the community answered

(19 responses)

A
95% (18)
B
5% (1)

Explanation

Security Center collects data from your Azure virtual machines (VMs), virtual machine scale sets, IaaS containers, and non-Azure (including on-premises) machines to monitor for security vulnerabilities and threats. Data is collected using: The Log Analytics agent, which reads various security-related configurations and event logs from the machine and copies the data to your workspace for analysis. Examples of such data are: operating system type and version, operating system logs (Windows event logs), running processes, machine name, IP addresses, and logged in user. Security extensions, such as the Azure Policy Add-on for Kubernetes, which can also provide data to Security Center regarding specialized resource types. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security-center/security-center-enable-data-collection

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#Microsoft Defender for Cloud#On-premises security#Log Analytics agent#Hybrid cloud security

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