Microsoft Defender for Business

Security remains one of the biggest concerns and most challenging responsibilities facing businesses today. With the rise in cyberattacks targeting small to medium-sized businesses, threats are becoming increasingly automated, striking at a significantly higher rate.

In November 2021, Microsoft reported a 300% increase in ransomware attacks with over 50% reaching small businesses. To address this, they invested in security solutions purposefully designed to help protect your company, such as Defender for Business.

What is Defender for Business?

An endpoint security solution designed especially for the small to medium sized businesses (up to 300 employees).

Defender for Business elevates security from traditional antivirus to next-generation protection, endpoint detection and response, threat and vulnerability management, and more. It helps to protect your business against cybersecurity threats including malware and ransomware across Windows, macOS, iOS and Android devices.

Defender for Business Capabilities:

Threat and vulnerability management – enables you to prioritise and focus on the weaknesses that pose the most urgent and the highest risk to your business to create a secure foundation for your environment.

Attack surface reduction – reduces your attack surface (places that your company is vulnerable to 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 – helping you to prevent and protect against threats at your front door with antimalware and antivirus protection – on your devices and in the cloud.

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) – behavioural-based detection and response alerts allowing you to identify persistent threats and remove them from your environment.

Automated investigation and remediation – helping you to scale your security operations by examining alerts and taking immediate action to resolve attacks for you.

APIs and integration – this will enable you to automate workflows and integrate security data into your existing security platforms and reporting tools.

How can we help?

You’ll be pleased to hear that Defender for Business is included in the Microsoft 365 Business Premium License. Alternatively, this can be purchased as a stand-alone service.

We can support you in implementing and managing Defender for Business to ensure your organisation has maximum protection, at all times.

Please get in touch with the team for more information, we’d love to hear from you!