Microsoft has announced that threat and vulnerability management support in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is now generally available on Android and iOS devices. The new threat and vulnerability management capabilities allow organizations to discover, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in real-time. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides vulnerability management capabilities for iOS and Android devices…
Microsoft has announced its Defender for Endpoint solution has added support for zero-touch onboarding on iOS. This feature is now available in public preview, and it should enable IT administrators to quietly install the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint app on enrolled iOS devices without any user interaction. “With this new capability, enterprises can now deploy…
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is much more than a traditional antivirus service. Now being offered in Plan 1 and Plan 2, the full offering you get with Plan 2 not only provides antivirus capabilities but also extended detection and response, attack surface reduction rules to harden the OS against common threat mechanisms, and threat…
New protection capabilities for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) customers landed in public preview, Oct 7th 2021, for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016. With the public preview, Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 gain ‘functional equivalence‘ to Windows Server 2019, thanks to a new agent that is being described as the ‘unified…
Microsoft recently announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint will soon be available in two plans: P1 and P2. In this article, I will look at how the two plans compare. With Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android devices being the most common target for cyber criminals, malware and threats are continuously improving and evolving. In the…
Microsoft recently announced that its Defender for Endpoint solution can now detect when unmanaged network devices may pose a threat. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise antimalware solution that builds upon the free Microsoft Defender software that’s built into Windows 10 and Windows Server. Defender for Endpoint helps enterprises prevent, detect, investigate, and respond…