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Defender for APIs in Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers full lifecycle protection, detection, and response coverage for APIs. Defender for APIs helps you to gain visibility into business-critical APIs. You can investigate and improve your API security posture, prioritize vulnerability fixes, and quickly detect active real-time threats. Defender for API's requires additional configuration in the Microsoft API portal.

Note: There is a cost attached to using Defender for API's