Email notification for high severity alerts should be enabled

What does this mean?

This recommendation ensures that email notifications are set up in Microsoft Defender for Cloud for high-severity alerts. Without email notifications, critical security alerts may go unnoticed.

Benefits of implementation

• Ensures timely awareness of critical security threats
• Supports incident response SLAs
• Required by security operations best practices

Drawbacks and considerations

• May generate email fatigue if many high-severity alerts occur
• Requires correct distribution list maintenance
• Email alone may not be sufficient for critical alerts (consider integration with SIEM)

Implementation

Implementation guidance coming soon.

Related recommendations

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