Microsoft Defender
Keep devices and servers secure from online threats with Microsoft Defender.
Conventional antivirus solutions offer limited protection to organisations and expose them to unseen dangers, harmful websites, and attackers who can bypass security measures.
Microsoft Defender is an integrated enterprise security solution that protects endpoints, identities, email, and applications from advanced threats. Microsoft Defender uses data from other Microsoft security products to help security teams secure and manage their organisations.
Microsoft Defender supports with:
Identify:
identify and address the most critical and imminent threats to your organisation with threat and vulnerability management. Fix software vulnerabilities and misconfigurations first, then take steps to proactively establish a secure baseline for your environment
Protect:
reduce the chances of being attacked on your devices and apps with attack surface reduction that gives attackers less options to harm you. Stop and defend against threats before they reach you with antimalware and antivirus protection on your devices and in the cloud
Detect and respond:
use endpoint detection and response to find and eliminate advanced threats from your system
Recover:
enhance your security operations and bounce back from cyber attacks with automated investigation and remediation, which analyses alerts and fixes attacks
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Microsoft Defender solutions
Use Defender for Identity to help security teams protect identities and find advanced identity-based cyber attacks.
- Lower cyber attack risk: Know your identity situation to reduce the chances of identity-based cyber attacks.
- Detect quickly: Find cyber threats quickly with ready-made alerts and detections for common and new cyber attack patterns.
- Investigate cyber threats with detail: Connect identity alerts with signals from across Microsoft Defender XDR for a complete view of incidents.
- Respond to cyber threats effectively: Act on a compromised identity right away or use custom detection rules to automate a response that fits your organisation’s needs.
Secure your email and collaboration tools from integrated cyber threats.
- Improve your email security without sacrificing features: Protect your organisation from advanced cyber attacks, such as BEC, with built-in email security that stops cyber attack stages and improves security operations efficiency.
- Get complete security for collaboration tools: Defend against emerging phishing attacks that target collaboration tools by securing your Microsoft Teams environment with a unified detection and response experience.
- Boost security with industry-leading AI and automation: Achieve unmatched precision with AI-enabled detection capabilities. Gain more insight into your organisation’s cyber threat landscape and vulnerabilities with advanced analytics and automated workflows.
- Fight back against sophisticated cyber attacks with XDR: React to complex cyber attacks using email and collaboration signals as part of your detection and response in Microsoft Defender XDR. Use incident-based detections to search across the entire cyber attack chain.
Use AI-driven endpoint security for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and IoT devices.
- Gain an edge over advanced adversaries with AI: Prevent cyber attacks such as ransomware and act at speed with groundbreaking AI that enhances your security team’s capabilities.
- Improve prevention with global threat intelligence: Reduce vulnerabilities with a clear view of your cyber attack surface and adversaries, along with best practices for cyber threat prevention.
- Protect devices from end to end: Safeguard your multiplatform and IoT devices with a comprehensive, industry-leading next-generation antivirus, detection, and response solution at the heart of Microsoft Defender XDR.
Gain visibility of and secure your SaaS app landscape with Defender for Cloud Apps.
- See and secure your SaaS apps: Find, control, and set up apps to make sure employees use safe and compliant applications.
- Protect the data in all your SaaS apps: Identify and protect sensitive information wherever it is. Let your employees access and view files safely in apps.
- Manage how apps interact with each other: Learn about privileges, permissions, and apps that access sensitive data on behalf of another app.
- Fight back against advanced cyber attacks using app signals: Fight back against complex cyber attacks using app signals as part of your advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR. The scenario-based detections will help your Security Operations Centre (SOC) hunt across the whole cyber attack chain.
Improve your security posture, defend workloads from modern cyber attacks, and develop more secure applications.
- Lower risk with contextual security posture management: Get complete visibility and continuous monitoring across your multi-cloud and hybrid environments, prioritise your most urgent risks with integrated contextual insights, and fix them at scale from code to cloud with built-in workflows.
- Help protect, detect, and respond swiftly to cyber threats: Gain comprehensive multicloud protection across infrastructure, apps, and data with cloud-native cyber threat detection and response.
- Unify security management for DevOps: Enable security teams with unified DevOps security management across multi-cloud and multiple-pipeline environments to help keep cloud applications secure from the beginning.
Why Phoenix for Microsoft Defender
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Microsoft Cloud, Phoenix has extensive expertise, industry recognition, and commitment to innovation, making us the partner of choice for organisations seeking robust and reliable Microsoft Security solutions.
We have five Microsoft Specialisations covering security, (11 Microsoft Specialisations in total) confirming our capabilities and success in supporting organisations to transform, protect, and reach their goals.
- Modernise Endpoint
- Cloud Security
- Identity and Access Management
- Information Protection and Governance
- Threat Protection
By working with Phoenix, you can trust that your security needs are in capable hands, enabling you to mitigate risks effectively and safeguard your organisation from cyber threats.
Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA)
Phoenix is a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) – a global ecosystem of cyber security technology providers who have integrated their solutions with Microsoft’s security products to provide enhanced protection, detection, and response capabilities for mutual customers. Launched by Microsoft, MISA brings together a diverse community of industry-leading security vendors, including independent software vendors (ISVs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), system integrators (SIs), and cyber security consulting firms.
The primary goal of MISA is to foster collaboration and interoperability among security vendors to deliver more comprehensive and integrated solutions that address the evolving threat landscape effectively. By leveraging Microsoft’s extensive security intelligence and data insights, MISA partners can enrich their own offerings and provide customers with greater visibility, control, and protection across their digital environments.
Microsoft Security and Management Elite Partner Program
Phoenix is a member of the Microsoft Security and Management Elite Partner Program.
The invite-only programme is targeted at key Microsoft partners with highly skilled practices that deliver customised solutions and services across security, management, identity, and compliance. The exclusive programme, run by Microsoft’s global Engineering Team, provides Phoenix with early access to the latest technical information across the product stack, the opportunity to participate in private previews, and direct links to key engineering resources.
Where to begin with Microsoft Defender
Our Microsoft security focused immersion experiences are a great starting point in enabling you to get crucial insights that will help shape your choices and business case:
The Microsoft Security Immersion Experience (SIE) is a high-level introduction to the security portals available to you as a Microsoft 365 customer. The one-hour session provides insight into the key areas of your security posture.
Our SIE is run in a demo environment, highlighting Microsoft 365 E5 security features in a live security lab, which is constantly updated with ongoing attacks. These attacks – executed by Microsoft – are designed to push the boundaries of Microsoft 365 security capabilities, providing a realistic view of the full benefits Microsoft security offers.
- Experience the latest security portals and the best way to navigate these
- Provides an insight to the core security portals with the option to attend more in-depth sessions around specific products
- Discover how the security portals lead you to important information quickly
- Answer your questions directly during Q&A with our trained facilitators
Arrange a call now with one of our Microsoft 365 Security Specialists for more information about our Security Immersion Experience and how your organisation can schedule a session. Simply find a date and time on the calendar that suits you and one of our team will call you at your chosen time.
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The Microsoft Purview Immersion Experience (PIE) is a high-level introduction to the compliance portal available to you as a Microsoft 365 customer. The session, typically around one hour, provides insight into the features available to you when investing in Microsoft 365 E3, and more advanced features from the Microsoft compliance stack and Microsoft 365 E5.
The PIE runs in a live demo environment, providing the opportunity to explore Microsoft 365 E5 compliance features and a live security tab, showcasing the products in their entirety. The realistic experience will allow you to discover the full benefits of investing in Microsoft 365 compliance products.
- Experience the latest compliance portals, the new features, and the best way to navigate these
- Gain insight to the core Microsoft compliance portal with the option to attend additional, in-depth sessions about specific products
- Discover how the compliance portal leads you to important information quickly
- Receive direct answers to your questions from our trained facilitators
Book your personalised Microsoft Purview Immersion Experience to explore your organisation’s compliance, security, and Office 365 environment in more detail.
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Microsoft Defender frequently asked questions
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an endpoint security platform that helps enterprise networks protect, identify, examine, and react to advanced threats. Endpoints are devices that may include laptops, phones, tablets, PCs, access points, routers, and firewalls.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a security solution for multiple clouds. It has native CSPM capabilities for Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud environments and offers threat protection across these platforms. You can also link non-Azure workloads in hybrid scenarios by using Azure Arc.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is an online email filtering service that helps secure your organisation from sophisticated threats to email and collaboration tools, such as phishing, business email compromise, and malware attacks.
Defender for Identity is a cloud service that secures on-premises and hybrid identities. Defender for Identity can prevent vulnerabilities and respond to active threats.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a cloud access security broker (CASB) that works on various clouds. It gives you clear visibility, data travel control, and advanced analytics to detect and stop cyber attacks on all your cloud services.
Discover how to remain protected with Microsoft Defender
Make your future more secure by exploring your security options with Phoenix and Microsoft. Talk to our Microsoft Security Specialists today.
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