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Microsoft Defender

Learn how to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks across devices, identities, apps, email, data, workloads, and clouds.

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Microsoft Defender Overview

Microsoft Defender is a threat protection and remediation suite of products and solutions which enable businesses to maintain the highest level security posture across their cloud, Office 365, endpoint, application, and identity solutions.

Your path to getting started with Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Defender XDR

Introduction to the full suite of solutions which Microsoft Defender XDR provides.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Introduction to the fundamental concepts and features of Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Instructor led training

Choose a traditional classroom training setting to learn on your own schedule, at your own pace, and in your own place.

Get Certified

Once you have completed the training, continue your journey to become a Security Operations Analyst.

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Virtual Training Days

Continue your learning journey with Microsoft Virtual Training Days that provide free, instructor-led, technical skilling in multiple languages and time zones across a variety of topics.