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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Enterprise endpoint security built into Microsoft 365

Overview

What Microsoft Defender for Endpoint does

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise endpoint security platform designed to help organizations prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. It's built into the Microsoft security ecosystem.

What people use it for

  • Enterprise endpoint security across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS via Plans 1 or 2
  • Small and medium-sized businesses using Microsoft Defender for Business as alternative
  • Organisations using Microsoft 365 E5 which includes Defender for Endpoint Plan 2

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

  • Pricing not published on public websites; quote required from Microsoft sales
  • Defender for Endpoint Plan 1 and Plan 2 do not include server licenses; additional licensing required for server protection
  • Specific feature differences between Plan 1 and Plan 2 require consulting Microsoft documentation

Capabilities

Features

  • Threat & vulnerability management

    Threat & vulnerability management capability

  • Attack surface reduction

    Attack surface reduction capability

  • Next-gen protection

    Next-gen protection capability

  • EDR

    EDR capability

  • Auto investigation

    Auto investigation capability

  • Microsoft Threat Experts

    Microsoft Threat Experts capability

  • Threat analytics

    Threat analytics capability

  • Secure score

    Secure score capability

  • Microsoft 365

    Integration with Microsoft 365

  • Azure Sentinel

    Integration with Azure Sentinel

  • Intune

    Integration with Intune

  • Azure AD

    Integration with Azure AD

Behind it

Who makes Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Company
Microsoft Corporation
Based in
Redmond, Washington, USA

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