Introduction
This module explores Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. It's an industry-leading, cloud-powered endpoint security solution. Its goal is to help organizations secure against ransomware, file-less malware, and other sophisticated attacks on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. This comprehensive solution helps to rapidly stop attacks, scale an organization's security resources, and evolve its defenses.
In this module, you examine several of the key features of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, including:
- threat and vulnerability management
- attack surface reduction
- next generation protection
- endpoint detection and response
- auto investigation and remediation
You learn how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint saves organizations time and resources. It does so by requiring no extra infrastructure and no agents to deploy on Windows endpoints. Microsoft 365 seamlessly integrates Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, which is always up to date.
This module examines how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint monitors for Microsoft and third-party software vulnerabilities and security configuration issues. It then automatically takes actions to mitigate risk and reduce exposure.