New Blog Post | Defender for Servers Plan 2 now integrates with MDE unified solution

Defender for Servers Plan 2 now integrates with MDE unified solution - Microsoft Tech Community

 

Today, we're excited to announce the release of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s unified agent integration with Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 2. With this release, we align the integration experience between Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) and both Microsoft Defender for Servers Plans.

 

In April 2022, we introduced Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 1 as an entry-level SKU that offers Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) capabilities such as Secure Score and security recommendations in addition to integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. With its release, we also introduced integration with MDE’s unified solution that allows us to remove dependency with Log Analytics Agent and the workspace solution to deploy MDE to down-level Windows operating systems. With today’s change, MDE integration is completely based on the two machine extensions MDE.Windows and MDE.Linux which are available for Azure VMs, and non-Azure machines that are connected through Azure Arc-enabled servers.