So as we move towards endpoint protection,
specifically focusing on server endpoint protection, Microsoft Defender
for Endpoint is the solution that comes into play.
This solution is an enterprise‑grade endpoint security platform that
is designed to help enterprises prevent, detect,
investigate, and respond to advanced threats.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is essentially split up into key pillars.
The first one is core defender vulnerability
management. Within Windows Server 2022,
Defender is built in. This means that because it's built in, it can
leverage core vulnerability management capabilities.
This enables it to perform a modern risk‑based
approach to discovery, assessment,
prioritization, and remediation of any type of vulnerabilities and
misconfigurations This is over and above the additional functionality
that Defender has such as tamper protection,
controlled folder access, and so forth.
The next pillar that it really focuses on is attack surface reduction.
This essentially is a set of capabilities that enables you to define
first‑line defenses in the event of an attack. The type of settings that
you would find in attack surface reduction range from various
capabilities that include network protection,
web protection, and capabilities to resist attacks and exploitation.
We then have next generation protection. Because this is a cloud
service, it relies on a multitude of signals that get fed in by
Microsoft threat intelligence and various types of partners. Based on
this, you can further reinforce your security perimeter by relying on
expert cyber threat intelligence to further protect your organization
and catch all types of emerging threats. From an endpoint detection and
response capability,
Defender for Endpoint really provides you with a lot of functionality to detect,
investigate, and respond to advanced threats.
For example,
you can leverage the detection capabilities to see the full attack chain
and identify all of the assets involved in that attack.
From an investigation perspective,
you have the ability to perform investigation activities,
for example,
pulling an investigation package or pivoting to user identities and more.
And then responding on that threat, making use of live response, you can
now take live response actions on your servers. And in line with your
endpoint detection and response,
you can also make use of automation to automatically
investigate and remediate various types of attacks.
One thing to keep in mind is that Defender for Endpoint
also makes use of advanced hunting,
which provides you with a query‑based threat hunting platform that
you can use to proactively filter and search through your data to find breaches and create custom detections.