In this lesson, we will look at how enabling endpoint protection can help secure virtual machines in Azure. After that, we will look at privileged access workstations and ways you can enable and secure remote access management of VMs. Additionally, you'll learn about configuring update management, deploying disk encryption, and how Windows Defender can help secure VMs. We will round things out by taking a look at Defender for Cloud recommendations and how they help secure resources, including virtual machines.