Microsoft Defender Endpoint (MDE)

How it works

Designed to protect organisation endpoints from various cyber threats, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 Security Centre leveraging threat intelligence to provide enhanced detection.

As part of the Microsoft 365 Defender suite, it provides a centralised view of security incidents and supports a holistic approach to endpoint security that utilises class-leading features such as Threat and Vulnerability Management, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Attack Surface Reduction, and Automated Investigation and Response to protect all the physical devices which connect to and exchange information with your company’s network.

As well as this, Defender for Endpoint provides a centralised security dashboard from which the security of all the devices within your network can be monitored, enabling personalised defence protocols to be implemented.

Advantages of MDE

• Seamlessly integrated and cloud-powered – As MDE is a cloud-based solution, there is no need for you to invest in additional on-site infrastructure, helping you keep costs low and providing less management overhead, saving time and resources.
• Scalability – Built on cloud technologies, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can scale beyond a million endpoints on a single tenant.
• Unparalleled optics – The widest threat optics, signal, and world-class human intelligence is built into the product, offering you a unique advantage against the latest and most sophisticated threats.
• Machine Learning Behavioral Detection – Combining client and cloud-based Machine Learning with behavioral algorithms, MDE detects and blocks known and unknown threats.
• AI-based Automation – Using Microsoft Threat Intelligence and AI trained by a team of over 3500 global security experts, Microsoft applies out-of-the-box AI-based automation to investigate alerts to understand if a threat is real and take automatic remediation actions that quickly fix impacted machines.
• Threat Hunting – Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides security teams with the ability to hunt for compromise over six months of historical data across the organisation.
• Threat Analytics – Reports allow organisations to quickly understand new global threats, identify if they are currently impacted, assess their exposure and take mitigation actions to increase their resilience to these threats.
• Threat & Vulnerability Management – Provides you with additional insights into your organisations device exposure to current, global, and similar industry threats by monitoring Microsoft insights as well as third-party software vulnerabilities and security configuration issues. It then automatically takes actions to mitigate risk and reduce exposure.
• Threat Experts – Microsoft Threat Experts provide Security Operations teams expert-level oversight and analysis to help ensure that critical threats in their unique environments don’t get missed.

Deploy MDE with confidence

As previously mentioned, all of the above cyber security capabilities are available with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and come with the Microsoft 365 E3 and E5. Adopting this software should be an essential part of every company’s security ‘roadmap’ as EDR technologies continue to become mandatory requirements by business insurance providers.

For implementation support, further adoption, or a no-obligation review of your Microsoft infrastructure, get in touch with the experts here at Air IT.

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