Use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to enforce device compliance with Microsoft Intune
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You can integrate Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Microsoft Intune as a Mobile Threat Defense solution. Integration can help you prevent security breaches and limit the impact of breaches within an organization.
See the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint requirements for the list of supported operating systems and versions.
Establish a service-to-service connection between Intune and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This connection lets Microsoft Defender for Endpoint collect data about machine risk from supported devices you manage with Intune. See Connect Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to Intune.
Use an Intune policy to onboard devices with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. You onboard devices to configure them to communicate with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and to provide data that helps assess their risk level. See Onboard devices.
Use a Conditional Access policy to block users from accessing corporate resources from devices that are noncompliant. See Create a Conditional Access policy.
Example of using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Intune
The following example helps explain how these solutions work together to help protect your organization. For this example, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intune are already integrated.
Consider an event where someone sends a Word attachment with embedded malicious code to a user within your organization.
The user opens the attachment, and enables the content.
An elevated privilege attack starts, and an attacker from a remote machine has admin rights to the victim's device.
The attacker then remotely accesses the user's other devices. This security breach can impact the entire organization.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can help resolve security events like this scenario.
In our example, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint detects that the device executed abnormal code, experienced a process privilege escalation, injected malicious code, and issued a suspicious remote shell.
Based on these actions from the device, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint classifies the device as high-risk and includes a detailed report of suspicious activity in the Microsoft Defender Security Center portal.
You can integrate Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Microsoft Intune as a Mobile Threat Defense solution. Integration can help you prevent security breaches and limit the impact of breaches within an organization.
Because you have an Intune device compliance policy to classify devices with a Medium or High level of risk as noncompliant, the compromised device is classified as noncompliant. This classification allows your Conditional Access policy to kick in and block access from that device to your corporate resources.
For devices that run Android, you can use Intune policy to modify the configuration of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Android. For more information, see Microsoft Defender for Endpoint web protection.
Prerequisites
Subscriptions:
To use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Intune, you must have the following subscriptions:
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint - This subscription provides you access to the Microsoft Defender Security Center.
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