Microsoft provides a comprehensive set of integrated security services to protect today's hybrid and multi-cloud environments against emerging threats and attacks across devices, identities, apps, email, data, and infrastructure. In this post we'll summarize Microsoft's primary offerings for securing your modern workplace.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint delivers industry-leading endpoint detection and response capabilities to identify and block sophisticated attacks on networked devices and endpoints, leveraging AI, behavior analytics, and Microsoft's security research expertise to analyze and mitigate threats.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protects your organization against sophisticated threats and attacks targeting email, collaboration tools, and other Office 365 workloads, using heuristics, machine learning, and advanced detection techniques to identify malicious content and activities in near real-time.
Microsoft Defender for Identity monitors Active Directory, Azure AD, and on-premises AD signals to identify compromised identities and insider threats, providing capabilities like behavioral analytics, risk assessments, and automated investigation playbooks.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps discovers shadow IT like unauthorized SaaS apps, enforces data loss prevention policies, and protects documents stored in third-party cloud services to maintain visibility and control over your cloud environments.
Microsoft 365 Defender orchestrates and automates the prevention, detection, investigation, and response across Microsoft security solutions, acting as the coordination center to streamline security operations.
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management finds, prioritizes, and tracks vulnerabilities across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid networks, providing continuous scanning, simplified reporting, and direct integration with Microsoft Defender solutions.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers a unified Cloud Workload Protection Platform that consolidates security management, data protection, and threat defense for multi-cloud and hybrid workloads across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises environments.
Microsoft Defender for Servers detects attacks and breaches for Windows and Linux servers through advanced behavioral analysis, providing security log retention, centralized security management, and seamless integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
Microsoft Defender for Storage monitors Azure storage accounts for anomalous and potentially harmful activity indicating compromised credentials, insider threats, or advanced persistent threats to identify and mitigate data breaches.
Microsoft Defender for SQL provides capabilities tailored to securing SQL Server in on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments, including vulnerability assessment, anomaly detection, threat protection, and expanded coverage beyond the database to the data plane.
Microsoft Defender for Containers scans container images in registries like Docker Hub to find vulnerabilities in both base images and application code dependencies, integrating with CI/CD pipelines to find issues prior to deployment.
Microsoft Defender for App Service delivers application layer protection against threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other OWASP top vulnerabilities for apps hosted on Azure App Service through seamless integration requiring no code changes.
Microsoft Defender for Key Vault identifies anomalous access attempts and unusual data extraction activities targeting Azure Key Vault accounts containing secrets, keys, and certificates to harden against advanced attacks.
Microsoft Defender for DNS detects exposures through DNS traffic analysis by identifying connections to malicious domains associated with command and control, phishing campaigns, and data exfiltration to automatically block threats.
Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager provides visibility into management plane activities by monitoring for anomalous Azure Resource Manager operations which could indicate compromised credentials, malicious insiders, or advanced persistent threat activity.
Microsoft Defender for IoT delivers threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and vulnerability assessments tailored to securing internet-connected devices and assets through integrated offerings for both IoT operators and device builders.
Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence powers protections across Microsoft security solutions using AI-derived, cloud-based threat analysis from trillions of signals to provide timely, actionable threat intelligence to identify emerging attacks.
Microsoft Defender Antivirus provides signature-based and heuristics-driven protections against malware, viruses, spyware, rootkits, and other cyberattacks for endpoints and servers based on the same technology as Windows Defender.
Windows Defender Firewall provides host-based, two-way network traffic filtering for Windows devices to block unauthorized network traffic flowing in and out based on configurable rules and policies.
Windows Defender Application Control lets you define trusted applications and lock down devices to only allow execution of authorized apps by enforcing code integrity policies and blocking untreated executables.
Microsoft Defender Application Guard isolates enterprise-defined untrusted sites in a secure container separated from the host operating system to contain zero-day attacks and prevent escalation.
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen protects users from phishing scams, drive-by downloads, and malware by integrating reputation-based blocking of malicious websites and files into Windows and Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft Defender for Business delivers endpoint security built natively in Microsoft 365 Business Premium for small and medium organizations to protect against cyber threats for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices.
Cyberattacks can cripple any size business. Microsoft Defender offers integrated cloud-based security tailored for SMBs to large Enterprises. From phishing protection to securing customer data, Defender keeps your company safe. Don't know how Defender can fully protect your business? Reach out to me to discuss implementing Microsoft’s security solutions for comprehensive threat protection across your digital assets.
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