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Microsoft Defender for Business Overview

What is Microsoft Defender for Business?

Even the smallest business can be a target for a cybersecurity attack. Get enterprise-grade endpoint security that’s cost-effective and easy to use—designed especially for businesses with up to 300 employees.

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Even the smallest business can be a target for a cybersecurity attack. Get enterprise-grade endpoint security that’s cost-effective and easy to use—designed especially for businesses with up to 300 employees.


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Microsoft
Year Founded
1975
HQ Location
Redmond, Washington
Twitter
@microsoft
14,039,026 Twitter followers
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238,990 employees on LinkedIn®
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MSFT
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+1 (877) 276-2464
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$204,090
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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately

8,000 passionate employees worldwide.


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Richard Owusu M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Microsoft Defender for Business"
Microsoft Defender for Business is widely recognized for its strong malware protection capabilities and the ability to integrate with other Microso...
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Sonny B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Defender for Business"
Most of our smaller clients have business premium licenses and Defender for Business is included at no extra cost.
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Satish E.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Microsoft defender is the best antivirus"
Microsoft defender is the best antivirus tool, it helped me to protect and keep my device secure from Trojans, malware and viruses.
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Sai Raj K.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Business?

+ Their Endpoint is one of the best, protecting your pc from harmful viruses. And its Microsoft, so trust is always there.

+ I have also found need not to purchase any third party antivirus software! However, if you are in financial services, use third party too.

+ Smartphone's app, devices and windows are all synced automatically and work well. All your windows devices are holistically protected. It also blocks harmful links automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Business?

+ It annoys me when it asks for the auth login again and triggers are failing, and sometimes even legitimate websites are blacklisted. It is a time waster. Older computers or older software might also slow down. + limited features like active malware thwarts and general scanning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Business solving and how is that benefiting you?

+ Enpoint firewall for secure browsing and preventing threats

+ Web control / category-based URL blocking has worked wonders.

+ Conditional access is really working good for the other people. so we control the access to whoever PCs are given. so less mess with your PC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Business?

Device security, antivirus, endpoint security, alerts and much more is very useful for any organization who uses defender for business. Easy to analyze and the portal is user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Business?

Nothing is there to dislike because every feature of this product is essential and beneficial. it could be more better by adding some useful things in learning hub and also for guidance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Business solving and how is that benefiting you?

finding threats, vulnerabilities, updates, incidents and alerts etc i solved and its very beneficial for my organization and to secure our devices from attacks and viruses, malware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James K.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Business?

I like the management integration with Microsoft 365 and Intune. Eliminating potential cyberthreats in the business IT environment gives me greater confidence to work with new customers whose security policies may be less than optimal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Business?

Without knowing exactly how Microsoft Defender for Business operates to protect my IT environment, I'm not sure what other security policies need to be created as part of Microsoft 365. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Business solving and how is that benefiting you?

MDB solves the problem of configuring and enforcing security policies that protect my endpoints from malicious actors. The primary benefit of implementing the service is achieving a better level of operational security for electronic mail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Business?

Defender for business is a robust platform that brings enterprise-grade security towards small and midsize companies. Offering excellent security features like Attack Surface Reduction rules, process timelines, identifying vulnerabilities and offering solutions to reduce the attack surface of individual devices within the organisation. Every license is suitable for five devices, including your mobile devices! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Business?

Development is going fast. You need to keep up the development otherwise, today's best practices can be yesterdays mistake. Also the learning path can be steep and for the best experience you need to be up-to-date with your operating systems to get most out of it. Also for stand alone devices that are not Azure or Local AD bound configuration options are limited or need to be set by hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Business solving and how is that benefiting you?

Protecting our devices both laptops and mobile devices. Providing insights in process events but also contributes towards a wider stack of Microsoft Security Products like Insider Risk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Business?

Microsoft defender helped us in protecting our system with Trojans and viruses. It helps to keep protected from malware and other viruses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Business?

There is nothing much to dislike about the application. Updates should be done frequently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Business solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft defender helped us in protecting our system with Trojans and viruses. It helps to keep protected from malware and other viruses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Business?

Easy to use.EDR is great

AIR response .

easy onbording and doesnt require any clients to install on windows machines.block mode Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Business?

limited to 300 users.

off boarding fully Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Business solving and how is that benefiting you?

automating our investigation and response.

reducing time for investigating the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Business?

How much microsoft invest in the product to make it easy to use and understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Business?

The enrollment process and follow up with logs are pretty complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Business solving and how is that benefiting you?

It handle all kinds of threats and help me investigating threats before they are harmfull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Umang D.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Business?

Windows defender has improved over the course of many years and now it is a full-fledged anti-malware software that eliminates any need for other cheap software. I don't trust any other anti-virus anymore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Business?

Sometimes when I want to work with customized files it automatically scans the system and quarantines the application. So, the identification system needs to be improved a lot and also could ask every time before quarantining the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Business solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft defender is a great tool for the windows operating system and it is highly integrated with the windows system. So, it works smoothly and doesn't hinder the processes on the windows system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Security?

What I like most about Microsoft Security is the visibility you get into threats and incidents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Security?

What I dislike about Microsoft Security is the speed of alerts and information. There is quite a delay from when the activity actually happens to when you get alerted and can see what happened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Security solves our problems of IT Security, network security, identity security, syslog information, and many other security features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Business?

How it's an enterprise solution not just for the smb market, but priced for the smb market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Business?

The manual configuration for the standalone solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Business solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping up to date with the ever advancing threats Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.