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Microsoft Defender Antivirus is just one of the services that Microsoft has made available on their Microsoft 365 upgrade for Windows 10, Windows 11, and versions of Windows Server. This antivirus protection offers significant threat resistance from the Microsoft cloud infrastructure to provide ongoing detection, prevention and response for emails, apps, identities, and endpoints. It is applicable to Microsoft Business and Microsoft Enterprise.

What Protection does Microsoft Defender Antivirus Offer?

As a business or enterprise user, Microsoft 365 uses Microsoft 365 Defender to protect devices against software pre- and post-breaches such as spyware, viruses, and malware. Furthermore, Microsoft 365 Defender can automatically be able to prevent the attack and heal the affected entry points.

Defender for Endpoint further extends an existing antivirus protection installed on the endpoint. The user can benefit from running Microsoft Defender alongside another antivirus solution.

Microsoft 365 Defender – leverages the Microsoft 365 security portfolio to automatically analyse threats and provide the information on a single dashboard.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – assists companies in securing their enterprise with a set of prevention, detection, investigation, and hunting features to protect email and Office 365 resources.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – delivers preventative protection, post-breach detection, automated investigation, and response for company devices.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – a comprehensive cross-SaaS and PaaS solution bringing enhanced visibility, data controls, and threat protection to all cloud apps.

IT security professionals can now use the integrated Microsoft 365 Defender solution to hunt for threats across endpoint and Office data, analyse each threat’s full impact, and establish how it entered the environment.

The Microsoft 365 Defender portal brings related information together and has afforded quicker access to information in a simple layout for ease of use.

What’s New in Microsoft 365 Defender?

Implementation of automated capabilities such as investigations and remediations which includes manual email remediation enhancements.
Alert queue to quickly view alerts.
Attack simulation training to run realistic threat scenarios.

How Microsoft 365 Defender Benefits IT Technicians

Microsoft 365 Defender for Office 365 will allow IT technicians to define threat protection policies and set them to the appropriate levels. It also provides real-time reports to enable IT technicians to monitor performance, investigate, analyse, and prevent threats. Furthermore, the automated investigation and response capabilities save time and effort – which is critical when investigating a potential cyber-attack.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is only included in certain subscriptions, but Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 or Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 may be purchased as an add-on to specific subscriptions.

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