are Agentless scanning for machines and vulnerability assessment for machines features available under azure gov (GCCH)?

Question

The defender for server P2 is activated on my subscription; however, I am not seeing any option to enabled these two features:

• Agentless scanning for machines
• vulnerability assessment for machines

I wonder if these are available on GCCH or only commercial.

Answer 1

Hello Leonord Joseph

Agentless scanning for machines and Vulnerability assessment for machines is available in Microsoft Defender for Cloud's Government Community Cloud High (GCCH) environment, provided you have the appropriate plans enabled.

Defender for Servers Plan 2 This plan includes both agentless scanning and agent-based vulnerability assessment. Agentless scanning is enabled by default when Defender for Servers Plan 2 is activated. If it's not enabled, you can manually turn it on through the Environment settings in Defender for Cloud.

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Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM): This plan also supports agentless scanning for machines. If you have CSPM enabled, you can activate agentless scanning via the Environment settings. Plan protection features
If you're not seeing the options to enable these features:

-Ensure you have Owner or Security Admin permissions at the subscription level. These roles are required to enable agentless scanning and vulnerability assessment.

-Verify that either Defender for Servers Plan 2 or Defender CSPM is activated in your subscription. Without these plans, the features won't be available.

-Navigate to Defender for Cloud > Environment settings > Your Subscription > Settings & Monitoring. Here, you should find options to enable both agentless scanning and vulnerability assessment.

Check these below documents this has detail steps to turn on these settings:
Enable agentless machine scanning
Enable vulnerability scanning
Agentless machine scanning

I hope this clarifies things.

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