MS Defender web protection / SmartScreen for Google Chrome and Firefox

Question

Hi. We have our CE+ assessment in a few weeks. In our CE basic, we provided information about our browsers Edge, Google Chrome and Firefox they have MS Defender / SmartScreen options enabled for malicious sites and downloads. Unfortunately, MS Defender web protection is end of its support and disappeared from the Google Chrome browser. Edge is still working fine with SmartScreen and still showing the "This site has been reported as unsafe" warning message. We are managing all our devices through Intune. What is an alternative solution for Google Chrome and Firefox for web protection? Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Muhammad Arif

Thank you for posting this in Microsoft Q&A.

I understand that you are looking for alternative solutions for web protection on Google Chrome and Firefox.

Web content filtering is available on major web browsers, with blocks performed by Windows Defender SmartScreen on Microsoft Edge and network protection on Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Opera. You can use network protection for Chrome and Firefox, which helps protect devices from certain Internet-based events by preventing connections to malicious or suspicious sites. It expands the scope of Microsoft Defender SmartScreen to block all outbound HTTP(S) traffic that attempts to connect to low-reputation sources based on the domain or hostname

For more information: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/network-protection

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/web-threat-protection

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

Thanks,

Navya.

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