If you use Exchange Online, you know you can be protected from spam and phishing emails using Exchange Online Protection (aka Defender for Office 365). In addition, you can also get your end-users to report spam or phishing emails which may have gone through the protection filters using the Report Message add-in in Outlook (client, […]
If use Intune, you know you can manage your devices configuration using configuration profiles. As part of these profiles, you can configure Microsoft Defender to enable firewall, control antimalware behaviour… Until now, you were not able to configure Microsoft Defender update behaviour (engine update,platform update and security intelligence update and update channels – beta, current
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This was something missing in the security and device management offers from Microsoft since the move to cloud services; there was no integrated solution to manage web content filtering (you could still buy third party solutions). Well, good news you can now manage web content filtering directly from your Office 365 subscription. I think this
As you know, you can manage Windows Defender settings by creating device configuration profiles using Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager, including devices managed by SCCM (aka on-premises server) – see https://t.co/VG0DaErni1. Well, you can now monitor the health of all the devices protected by Windows Defender directly from the Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager portal, including the ones managed
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As you know, SCCM and Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager are being more and more close with each other. Well, now you can define and apply Microsoft Defender policy from Endpoint Configuration Manager on devices managed by SCCM. To be able to do it, you need to use the latest version of SCCM Current Branch 2002 with
As you know you can control some settings of Windows Defender through Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager. Well, you can now also define update locations to get the definition updates for Windows Defender Antivirus. To configure the locations, logo to your Endpoint Configuration Manager portal (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/) and access the Endpoint security\Antivirus configuration blade Then create (or update)
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As you know, you can manage and configure your Windows Defender Firewall with Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager, including rules. But what about if you already had configured GPO’s (Group Policy Objects) to manage and configure Windows Defender Firewall? Until now you had to manually replicate these rules into Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager. Well, good new, you can
As you know, attackers always try to be ahead of the security game and one of their technique is to disable the endpoint protection (aka antivirus/antimalware). Well, while Windows Defender is a quite secure and robust endpoint protection, it is obviously one of the major focus for these attackers. To help mitigate security threats trying
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Good new if you have implemented an Endpoint Protection policy in Intune (hope you did ): you can now create your very own Defender Firewall rules. As you know, with the Endpoint Protection policy you were able to configure Windows Defender Firewall to have it enabled as well as few basic settings like merging (or
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