Microsoft 365 Defender is a comprehensive corporate protection package that integrates detection, prevention and investigation across endpoints and identities. It also includes email and application responses to ensure integrated protection against sophisticated attacks.
Security professionals can use the integrated Microsoft 365 Defender solution to analyze the threat signals received from each product. This allows them to determine the full extent and impact of the threat, how it entered the environment, how it has affected the organization, and what it is currently affecting. Microsoft 365 Defender automatically detects the threat and takes steps to stop or halt it. It also self-heals impacted mailboxes and endpoints and user identities.
What are the main tools of Microsoft 365 Defender
Microsoft 365 defender in its entirety offers many tools and services that can be used by your company to improve your security. It is one of the most popular in today’s business environment. Let’s talk about its essential services.
Endpoints with Defender For Endpoint
Defender for Endpoint is one endpoint platform that provides preventative protection, post-breach detection and automated investigation.
Email and collaboration with Defender for Office 365
Defender for Office 365 protects you company from threats sent via email, links and collaboration tools.
Protect your identity with Defender for Identity and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Defender for Identity uses your on-premises Active Directory Domain Services signals to detect, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities and hostile insider behavior directed at your business. Azure AD Identity Protection automates the identification and mitigation of identity-based threats in your Azure AD cloud environment.
Apps with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Applications is a cross-SaaS solution that gives your cloud apps deep visibility, robust data restriction and better threat prevention.
What are the main functions of Microsoft 365 Defender?
Microsoft 365 Defender has some of the most powerful features to help businesses achieve maximum security. It offers many functions that are interactive and easy-to-use. The unique cross-product layer in Microsoft 365 Defender enhances the service components that can be used:
To give security teams the full story of an attack, join data on alerts, suspicious events, and impacted assets.
Automate the response to compromise by activating self healing for compromised assets via automated remediation.
Security teams can conduct comprehensive and effective threat hunting using Office and endpoint data.
You can help coordinate defensive responses across services by signal exchange and automated actions to protect against threats.
What are the main features in the Microsoft 365 Defender?
Microsoft 365 Defender, as mentioned earlier, is equipped with a cross product layer that allows it to detect and respond to threats more effectively. It is one its best features. Let’s now look at some of its key features:
Microsoft 365 Defender portal offers a single pane of glass that can be used across multiple products
The Microsoft 365 Defender portal provides a centralized view of all information regarding detections, impacted assets and automatic actions. It also displays evidence in a single window and queue.
Queue for Combined Incidents
Security professionals can focus on what is important by making sure that the full extent and impacted assets are presented and presented in a timely manner.
Automated response to threats
Critical threat information is sent in real time between the Microsoft 365 Defender products to stop the development of an attack.
Self-healing for compromised devices and user identities.
Microsoft 365 Defender uses AI-powered automated actions to restore damaged assets to a particular condition. Microsoft 365 Defender uses the suite’s automatic remediation features to ensure that any impacted assets are automatically remediated after an event.
Cross-product threat hunting
Security teams can use their organizational expertise to find breach indicators by creating custom queries from the raw data obtained by the various protection technology. Microsoft 365 Defender allows you query-based access for 30 days to raw alert and signal data from endpoints, and Defender for Office 365 data.
These are the tools and features of Microsoft 365 Defender that you need to be aware of. To learn more about Microsoft 365 Defender, and to gain more knowledge about how to use it to create a better CV you can download the Microsoft Security Analyst