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Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac is here!
Published Jul 08 2019 05:08 PM 31K Views
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Our customers face threats from a wide variety of entry points across devices, and we are laser focused on listening to their feedback and creating products that provide robust security across their environments. This is why we aim to build and deliver leading endpoint security solutions that work across platforms. Today we are thrilled to announce that Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for Mac is generally available as of June 28, 2019!

 

With Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac general availability, all Microsoft Defender ATP customers now have an opportunity to start benefiting from integrated experiences across their Windows and macOS clients in Microsoft Defender Security Center.

The Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac supports the three latest released versions of macOS: Mojave, High Sierra, and Sierra. Customers can use Microsoft Intune and Jamf to deploy and manage Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac. Just like with Microsoft Office applications on macOS, Microsoft Auto Update is used to manage Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac updates.

 

Guided by customer feedback

 

Since launching the Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac preview, we’ve been incorporating customer feedback and making improvements around performance, detection accuracy, and the user-facing client experience.

 

We’re focused on building solutions customers will love. We work closely with select design partner companies to collect their input and feedback from early product development stages to general availability and beyond. These partnerships, like the one we have with Dow, influence our product planning and development and are essential to providing the best experience for our customers. In Dow’s own words:

 

“We’re very excited to be using Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac. It’s demonstrating solid detections and we’re looking forward to what’s coming in future updates.”

- Dan Lacher, Senior Cyber Security Specialist, Dow

Go to the public documentation to see what’s available now. Even richer capabilities will be unfolding in the coming months. We can’t wait for you to join our macOS journey and try out new capabilities as they become available. Make sure to turn on preview features in Microsoft Defender Security Center to get the latest updates before anyone else and stay tuned to our blog and Twitter channel for the latest announcements.

 

How to get started

 

Microsoft 365 E5 Security and Microsoft 365 E5 customers can start using Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac on machines running macOS right away. To get started, navigate to the onboarding section in Microsoft Defender Security Center.

 

If you haven’t already, give Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac a try! Make sure to let us know your feedback and feature requests! You can submit feedback by opening Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac on your device and navigating to Help > Send feedback. Another option to submit feedback is via Microsoft Defender Security Center. We’re looking forward to hearing more about what you think.

 

For information and resources, including system requirements, prerequisites, deployment guidance, and a list features, check out the Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac documentation.

 

If you’re not yet taking advantage of Microsoft’s industry leading optics and detection capabilities, sign up for free trial of Microsoft Defender ATP today.

 

 

Helen Allas

Microsoft Defender ATP team

12 Comments
Copper Contributor

Hi,

 

Are there plans to send more telemetry data to WD ATP portal from Mac machines besides Alerts and Device information? Without the rich telemetry data gathered about all events which are happening on a system it's not as powerful and useful as expected.

Microsoft

@vadymchakrian ,

Richer capabilities will be iteratively added over the next months as part of our upcoming releases. - Make sure to turn on preview features in Microsoft Defender Security Center to always get the latest feature set and follow this blog and Twitter channel for the latest announcements. And please leverage MDATP for Mac app "Help > Send feedback" on your device or "feedback button" in Microsoft Defender Security Center to share what specific functionality is the most important for your organization.

Copper Contributor

Hi, what is the status of Onboarding Linux distros to MDATP, is there any documentation in place??

Microsoft

@md_cs , at this point in time, our customers can rely on one of Microsoft cross-plat partners for Linux and onboard them according to the documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/microsoft-defender-atp/configure...

Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux from Microsoft is on the roadmap, but no dates can be shared at this time.

Copper Contributor

Hello,

When you say "Microsoft E5 Security" are you referring to the Enterprise Monitoring + Security E5 product? I'm interested because I would like to consider the possibility of using Microsoft Defender ATP on our macOS devices here

Microsoft

Hi Darren,

 

we have multiple "E5 offerings", and one of them is called "Microsoft 365 Security" which includes

  • Office 365 Threat Intelligence 
  • Office 365 ATP
  • Office 365 Cloud App Security

  • Microsoft Cloud App Security 

  • Azure Active Directory Plan 2

  • Azure ATP

  • Microsoft Defender ATP

 

Then there is the full M365 E5, which also includes these other E5 components.

  • Office 365 Advanced Compliance

  • Azure Information Protection Plan 2

  • Phone System

  • Audio Conferencing

  • PowerBI Pro
  • MyAnalytics

 

All E5 SKUs include all E3 products and features of course.

Does this help?

Copper Contributor

Hello,

 

Does Microsoft 365 Security E5 provide the same set of services as Enterprise Mobility + Security E5? I was looking through the set of non-profit applications was only able to find Enterprise Mobility + Security E5.

Microsoft

Microsoft 365 E5 combines Enterprise Mobility + Security E5, Office 365 E5 and Windows E5. So with Microsoft 365 E5 you get Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 plus the other two.

Copper Contributor

Hi there,

I think I understand the differences, as well as the options for our organisation to obtain this for our Windows and macOS clients.

Thank you for your help

Copper Contributor

Am so worried about it  i did not success to installing into my macOS Catalina. :( is there way you guys share with me .pkg file of this Microsoft Defender ATP

Copper Contributor

When I install this onto my MacBook (OS X Catalina), it shows up on the top bar with the red X on it. When I click on it "Action Needed" is at the top. After I click on that I get a window that tells me "No License found" and "Looks like your organization does not have a license for Microsoft 365 Enterprise subscription" 

I'm not sure how that applies to this install. We're an O365 organization. I don't have any issues getting this onto our Windows devices. 

Iron Contributor

@jbetancourt if you're absolutely certain you have at least one of the following licensed in your tenant:

 

  • Windows 10 Enterprise E5
  • Microsoft 365 E5
  • Microsoft 365 E5 Security
  • Microsoft Defender ATP for Cross Platform Devices

...then I would suggest you open a support ticket. I have seen this issue and on the affected devices an uninstall and manual reinstall, setting the Run the Python script to install the configuration file, worked for me. so if you're doing this make sure you've downloaded a fresh wdav.pkg for manual install and a fresh manual onboarding script.

 

Note: Office 365 (any variant) is not on the list above, as MDATP isn't an Office product. HTH! :)

 

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