Did you know that the Microsoft 365 admin center includes Advanced deployment guides to help you deploy Microsoft 365 Defender products? Ensure your cloud IT environment is secure from day one with the Microsoft 365 Defender for Endpoint, Office, Cloud Apps, and Security Analyzer.
Microsoft 365 Defender is a pre- and post-breach enterprise defense suite that coordinates detection, prevention, investigation, and response across endpoints, identities, email, and applications to provide integrated protection against sophisticated cyber-attacks.
The Defender series of products ingests and aggregates threat signals, stitching them together to provide security administrators the full scope and impact of a threat, including how it entered the environment, what it affected, and how it's currently impacting the organization. Microsoft 365 Defender takes automatic action to prevent or stop the cyber-attack and self-heal affected mailboxes, endpoints, and user identities.
Microsoft 365 Defender Advanced deployment guides
Security Analyzer
The Security Analyzer Advanced deployment guide will analyze your security approach and introduce you to Microsoft integrated security and compliance solutions that can improve your security posture. You’ll learn about advanced features, such as managing identities and helping to protect against modern attacks. You can then sign up for a trial subscription and be pointed to the corresponding setup guidance for each solution.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
The Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Advanced deployment guide provides deployment instructions that will help your enterprise network prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. Make an informed assessment of your organization's vulnerability and decide which deployment package and configuration methods are best.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
The Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Advanced deployment guide safeguards your organization against malicious threats that your environment might come across through email messages, links, and third-party collaboration tools. This guide provides you with the resources and information to help you prepare and identify the Defender for Office 365 plan to fit your organization's needs.
Microsoft Defender for Identity
The Microsoft Defender for Identity Advanced deployment guide provides security solution set-up guidance to identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats that might compromise user identities. These include detecting suspicious user activities and malicious insider actions directed at your organization. You’ll create a Defender for Identity instance, connect to your organization's Active Directory, and then set up sensors, alerts, notifications, and configure your unique portal preferences.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
The Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Advanced deployment guide provides easy to follow deployment and management guidance to setup your Cloud Discovery solution. With Cloud Discovery, you'll integrate your supported security apps, and then you'll use traffic logs to dynamically discover and analyze the cloud apps that your organization uses. You'll also set up features available through the Defender for Cloud Apps solution, including threat detection policies to identify high-risk use, information protection policies to define access, and real-time session controls to monitor activity. With these features, your environment gets enhanced visibility, control over data movement, and analytics to identify and combat cyberthreats across all your Microsoft and third-party cloud services.
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Learn about all deployment guides and setup wizards:
Getting started with advanced deployment guides in the Microsoft 365 admin center:
- Go to https://admin.microsoft.com/ and login
- Once logged in, go to the Home page and look for the Training, guides, & assistance card
- Select Advanced deployment guides & assistance
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