What is Microsoft Defender for Business
Defender for Business is a device security solution designed especially for small and midsize businesses (up to 300 employees). Your company's devices are better protected from ransomware, malware, phishing, and other threats.
Traditional antivirus solutions vs. Microsoft Defender for Business
What’s Included
Enterprise-grade endpoint security
Threat and vulnerability management - By discovering, prioritizing, and remediating software vulnerabilities and misconfigurations you can proactively build a secure foundation for your environment.
Attack surface reduction – Reduces your attack surface (places that your company is vulnerable to a cyberattacks) across your devices and applications using capabilities such as ransomware mitigation, application control, web protection, network protection, network firewall, and attack surface reduction rules.
Next-generation protection – Helps to prevent and protect against threats at your front door with antimalware and antivirus protection
Endpoint detection and response (EDR) – Get behavioral-based detection and response alerts allowing you to identify persistent threats and remove them from your environment. Manual response actions within Defender for Business will allow you to take action on processes and files, while live response will put you in direct control of a device to help ensure it’s remediated, secured, and ready to go.
Automated investigation and remediation - Helps to scale your security operations by examining alerts and taking immediate action to resolve attacks for you. By reducing alert volume and remediating threats, Defender for Business allows you to prioritize tasks and focus on more sophisticated threats.
APIs and integration - Automate workflows and integrate security data into your existing security platforms and reporting tools. For example, you can pull detections from Defender for Business into your security information and event management tool.
What does that all mean?
Overall the product provides the tools to protect your technical resources both on premise and in the cloud. You will be able to install and configure local agents to protect your Windows, Mac, Mobile devices and Servers. You will also be able to set centralized policies to protect your environment from Spam/Malware, Firewall, Web Content filtering and Reduce your Attack surface across all your devices.
How much does this cost and how do I get it?
Luckily, if you have a Microsoft 365 Business Premium License then Defender is already included in the package. Otherwise it is available as an Add-in that can be added to any Microsoft 365 license. It is a very cost affective way to add a substantial layer of security to your environment.
Microsoft Defender for Business
Annual Commitment paid Monthly $3.80 CDN/$3.00 USD
Monthly Commitment paid Monthly $4.56 CDN/$3.60 USD
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