Microsoft Defender for Business

How it works

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (EDR) provides advanced protection against cyber threats by monitoring endpoint activity in real time, detecting suspicious behaviour, and automatically responding to incidents such as malware, ransomware, or unauthorised access. It collects detailed telemetry from devices, enabling security teams to investigate threats and respond quickly. This technology is included with licences like Microsoft Defender for Business and Microsoft 365 E5, offering enterprise-grade security even for small and medium-sized businesses.

Huntress Managed Defender enhances Microsoft Defender by adding expert oversight, centralised visibility, and simplified management. It integrates directly with Microsoft Defender, allowing the Huntress Security Operations Center (SOC) to monitor alerts, validate threats, and provide actionable insights. This means organisations don’t have to rely solely on in-house teams to manage detections or policy configurations. The service includes a user-friendly dashboard, consistent policy deployment across devices, and detailed reporting — making it easier for MSPs and IT teams to deliver effective endpoint protection with less complexity and more confidence.

Advantages of EDR powered by Microsoft Defender

• Seamlessly integrated and cloud-powered – As MDE is a cloud-based solution, there is no need for you to invest in additional on-site infrastructure, helping you keep costs low and providing less management overhead, saving time and resources.
• Scalability – Built on cloud technologies, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can scale beyond a million endpoints on a single tenant.
• Unparalleled optics – The widest threat optics, signal, and world-class human intelligence is built into the product, offering you a unique advantage against the latest and most sophisticated threats.
• Machine Learning Behavioral Detection – Combining client and cloud-based Machine Learning with behavioral algorithms, EDR powered by Microsoft Defender detects and blocks known and unknown threats.
• AI-based Automation – Using Microsoft Threat Intelligence and AI trained by a team of over 3500 global security experts, Microsoft applies out-of-the-box AI-based automation to investigate alerts to understand if a threat is real and take automatic remediation actions that quickly fix impacted machines.
• Threat Hunting – EDR powered by Microsoft Defender provides security teams with the ability to hunt for compromise over six months of historical data across the organisation.
• Threat Analytics – Reports allow organisations to quickly understand new global threats, identify if they are currently impacted, assess their exposure and take mitigation actions to increase their resilience to these threats.
• Threat & Vulnerability Management – Provides you with additional insights into your organisations device exposure to current, global, and similar industry threats by monitoring Microsoft insights as well as third-party software vulnerabilities and security configuration issues. It then automatically takes actions to mitigate risk and reduce exposure.
• Threat Experts – Microsoft Threat Experts provide Security Operations teams expert-level oversight and analysis to help ensure that critical threats in their unique environments don’t get missed.

Deploy MDE with confidence

As previously mentioned, all of the above cyber security capabilities are available with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and come with the Microsoft 365 E3 and E5. Adopting this software should be an essential part of every company’s security ‘roadmap’ as EDR technologies continue to become mandatory requirements by business insurance providers.

For implementation support, further adoption, or a no-obligation review of your Microsoft infrastructure, get in touch with the experts here at Air IT.

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