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How do I get 50 Azure Defender to protect windows servers on premise?
Thanks for the info.
I think I was confusing defender by itself and defender with atp. I started this research journey because we've had Kaspersky for 5 years now and always turned off the Microsoft antivirus. So my goal was to just get a few of my servers protected with azure defender, antivirus only, instead of Kaspersky to see how that works but also wanted to manage the antivirus centrally. So I ended up just jumping right into ATP with azure security portal. When all I wanted to start with was managing Defender on servers.
Microsoft
I think we need to clarify the wording: Azure Defender is the Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) built into Azure Security Center, whereas you seem to be referring to our antimalware solution (SCEP/Microsoft Antimalware/Microsoft Defender Antivirus). Antimalware for Azure VMs is part of Azure Security Center without additional cost. For on-prem servers, you will need to onboard them to Azure Defender.
Best,
Tom Janetscheck
Senior Program Manager
CxE | Azure Security Center
Your response plus this https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/?p=91813 seems to make things clearer.
When you mention onboarding on-premise server to Azure Defender, is that free? "Managing" on-prem servers in the Azure Defender portal.
- Ok disregard my last response. I will try to figure out how to onboard my on prem vm's to azure defender. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/security-center/quickstart-onboard-machines#add-non-azure-machines-with-azure-arc