Upwind Partners with Microsoft to Deliver Runtime Security for Azure Workloads

The collaboration brings runtime protection, compliance, and vulnerability management into a seamless Azure experience, setting a new standard for enterprise security.

Mar. 12, 2026 at 9:19pm

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Upwind, the runtime-first cloud security leader, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver a unified Azure security solution to enterprises worldwide. The partnership brings together runtime protection, posture management, and vulnerability detection in a single experience, giving organizations continuous and integrated visibility across their Azure environments. Available on the Microsoft Marketplace, the solution offers deep alignment with Azure's services and will expand in the coming months to address identity protection, internet exposure, and GenAI workloads.

Why it matters

This partnership highlights Microsoft's commitment to equipping enterprises with the cloud runtime security foundation. By bringing runtime-first protection into Azure-native services and the Microsoft Marketplace, customers can now pinpoint the vulnerabilities that matter most in real time, cut through the alert noise that slows down security teams, and act on what's truly exploitable.

The details

The collaboration brings together runtime protection, compliance, and vulnerability management into a seamless Azure experience, setting a new standard for enterprise security. Unlike traditional cloud security tools that rely on static rules, fragmented signals, or posture-only scans, Upwind delivers a comprehensive platform that pairs agentless visibility with eBPF-powered runtime detection. By unifying posture management, workload protection, threat detection, vulnerability management, and identity security into one solution, Upwind helps security teams cut through noise, reduce false positives, and act before risks become incidents.

  • The partnership was announced on March 12, 2026.

The players

Upwind

Upwind is the next-generation cloud security platform built to lead the Runtime revolution. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Upwind brings together a unified vision for cloud and application-layer protection, empowering organizations to run faster, detect threats earlier and secure their environments with unmatched precision.

Microsoft

Microsoft is a multinational technology company that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services.

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What they’re saying

“Cloud innovation is accelerating faster than traditional security platforms can keep up. Upwind solves that problem, and by partnering with Microsoft we're embedding our runtime-first protection directly into the fabric of Azure, from audit logs to container registries, giving customers the ability to discover and act on threats before they become breaches. This is both an integration and a redefinition of how cloud security should work, setting a new benchmark for protecting enterprises across Azure and their mutli-cloud investments.”

— Amiram Shachar, CEO and co-founder of Upwind (Business Wire)

“Our partnership with Upwind highlights Microsoft's commitment to equipping enterprises with the cloud runtime security foundation. By bringing runtime-first protection into Azure-native services and the Microsoft Marketplace, we're enabling customers to, for the first time, pinpoint the vulnerabilities that matter most in real time, cut through the alert noise that slows down security teams, and act on what's truly exploitable.”

— Tom Davis, Partner at Microsoft Startups (Business Wire)

What’s next

The solution will expand in the coming months to address identity protection, internet exposure, and GenAI workloads.

The takeaway

This partnership between Upwind and Microsoft sets a new standard for enterprise cloud security by delivering a comprehensive platform that combines runtime protection, posture management, and vulnerability detection into a seamless Azure experience. This empowers security teams to detect and respond to risks in real time, cutting through noise and reducing false positives.