Overview of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
In this, we will get a detailed overview of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and its services.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise endpoint security platform that helps enterprise networks prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. However, Defender for Endpoint uses the following combination of technology built into Windows 10 and Microsoft’s robust cloud service:
- Firstly, Endpoint behavioral sensors. These sensors collect and process behavioral signals from the operating system and send this sensor data to your private, cloud instance of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
- Secondly, Cloud security analytics. Leveraging big-data, device-learning, and unique Microsoft optics across the Windows ecosystem, enterprise cloud products, and online assets, behavioral signals are translated into insights, detections, and recommended responses to advanced threats.
- Lastly, Threat intelligence. Generated by Microsoft hunters, security teams, and augmented by threat intelligence provided by partners, threat intelligence enables Defender for Endpoint to identify attacker tools, techniques, and procedures, and generate alerts when they are observed in collected sensor data.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Capabilities
1. Threat & Vulnerability Management
- This built-in capability uses a game-changing risk-type approach to the discovery, prioritization, and remediation of endpoint vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
2. Attack surface reduction
- The initial layer of defence in the stack is the attack surface reduction set of capabilities. By maintaining adequate setup settings and employing exploit prevention strategies, however, this may be avoided.
- Then, the capabilities resist attacks and exploitation. However, this set of capabilities also includes network protection and web protection, which regulate access to malicious IP addresses, domains, and URLs.
3. Next-generation protection
- To further reinforce the security perimeter of your network, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint uses next-generation protection for catching all types of emerging threats.
4. Endpoint detection and response
- Endpoint detection and response capabilities are put in place for detecting, investigating, and responding to advanced-level threats.
- However, advanced hunting provides a query-based threat-hunting tool that lets you proactively find breaches and create custom detections.
5. Automated investigation and remediation
- In conjunction with being able to quickly respond to advanced attacks, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint offers automatic investigation and remediation capabilities for reducing the volume of alerts in minutes at scale.
6. Microsoft Secure Score for Devices
Defender for Endpoint includes Microsoft Secure Score for Devices to help you,
- Firstly, dynamically assess the security state of your enterprise network
- Secondly, identify unprotected systems
- Lastly, take recommended actions to improve the overall security of your organization.
7. Microsoft Threat Experts
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s threat hunting service provides proactive hunting, prioritization, and additional context and insights that further empower Security operation centers (SOCs) to identify and respond to threats quickly and accurately.
Reference: Microsoft Documentation