Today, we are excited to announce the preview of a core set of our industry leading prevention and protection capabilities for client endpoints running Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. This new solu...
Updated Sep 14, 2021
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Hi Andrew_Woo,
The current Defender product can be deployed 1) manually, 2) using group policy, 3) using 3rd party RMM, or the ideal way, 4) Intune.
To answer your question, no you do not "need" Intune, but it is definitely recommended.
-jon