MICROSOFT Defender for Business

Secure your Organisation with Microsoft Defender for Business

If you want to strengthen your organisation’s security posture, with AI-powered device protection that’s simple, cost-effective and easy to use, get in touch with our experts today. 

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What is Microsoft Defender for Business?

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Microsoft Defender for Business is a powerful cyber security solution tailored specifically for small and medium-sized businesses with up to 300 employees.

Drawing on the advanced capabilities of its enterprise-level counterpart, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, this endpoint security solution delivers enterprise-grade security at a price point that meets the needs of SMEs. This means you get the same capabilities and extremely comprehensive protection, typically reserved for larger organisations, all while staying within a budget-friendly, SME price range.

From protection against well-known threats, like ransomware and malware to phishing, with Defender for Business you can go beyond traditional antivirus with vulnerability management for a range of devices.

How can I Implement Microsoft Defender for Business?

If you’re looking for a new endpoint security solution, Defender for Business is available to purchase as a standalone license. If you’re already using Microsoft 365, Defender for Business is also available as part of Microsoft 365 Business Premium license, a unified solution that helps protect your business by bringing together best-in-class productivity apps, powerful cloud services, and comprehensive security.

Want to know which is the best fit for your business?

How Can Microsoft Defender for Business Support My Organisation?

Microsoft Defender XDR is a product packed full of security features to improve protections within your organisation’s IT environment. Below we delve into how a security solution that implements Defender XDR can solve some of your biggest business cyber security challenges.

Identifying Sensitive Data

Your Business Challenge

Organisations can struggle to identify sensitive data at scale. Defender helps by automatically detecting and classifying sensitive documents, reducing manual effort.

Cost-Effective Security

Your Business Challenge

SMBs typically face budget constraints, meaning more needs to be done with less. Defender provides enterprise-grade protection at an affordable price, consolidating multiple security products into one solution.

Vulnerability Management

Your Business Challenge

Keeping track of software vulnerabilities and misconfigurations can be a challenge. Defender helps discover, prioritise, and remediate weaknesses, strengthening overall security.

Streamlined Management

Your Business Challenge

Simplifying security management is crucial. Defender offers easy-to-use controls, actionable insights, and out-of-the-box policies for efficient onboarding^.

Optimised Total Cost of Ownership

Your Business Challenge

SMEs are statistically rapidly stopping cyberattacks, which is essential. Defender’s AI-powered endpoint protection detects and responds to threats, whether employees are in the office or working remotely.

Defender for Business Features and Capabilities

Now we understand some of the ways Defender for Business can help your organisation with modern endpoint security, let’s explore the capabilities in depth below.

Next-Gen Antivirus Protection

Modern endpoint security allows you to keep emerging threats blocked. Using both endpoint detection and security, Defender uses both local and cloud-based learning models with predictive technologies to shield against modern evolving and mutating threats.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

The core capabilities of Defender for Business detects and responds to threats in real-time. By collecting data from your devices, Defender for Business constantly analyses the usage, investigating any potential threats, to escalate a response.

Attack Surface Reduction

Attack surface reduction (ASR) minimises the number of possible points that a threat actor could use to gain access to your systems. Defender for Business contains reduction tools that allow you to stay on top of your attack surface.

Automated Investigation & Remediation

Simplify and streamline the work needed to identify and respond to threats, with automated investigations powered by Microsoft’s inbuilt algorithms.

Cross Platform Support

Microsoft Defender for Business, provides tailored security solutions to safeguard your company’s devices, against various cyber threats, across multiple platforms. With it, you can protect all your company’s devices, and business servers, including mobile devices running Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and Linux.

What are the Benefits of Microsoft Defender and how can it help my Business?

Enterprise-level security for less

By using Defender for Business, organisations can consolidate their security solutions into one easy-to-use platform. This cost-effective approach reduces licensing fees and simplifies management.

Unified Protection

Defender provides comprehensive security across endpoints, servers, and cloud workloads. This unified protection helps prevent data breaches, malware infections, and other security incidents.

Reduced Downtime

Effective threat detection and automated response minimise potential downtime caused by security incidents.

Compliance and Risk Mitigation

Defender helps meet compliance requirements by safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring adherence to industry standards. It also reduces the risk of data breaches and associated legal consequences.

Centralised Management

Streamline security with user-friendly, centralised console controls, actionable insights, and out-of-the-box policies for simplified onboarding.

Why Choose Stripe OLT to support your Defender requirements?

Microsoft Specialists

Certified Microsoft Solutions Partner

Whether you need to enhance collaboration with applications like Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, secure your environment with Microsoft Sentinel, or integrate it with other tools for exporting events and alerts, you can trust our highly certified Microsoft team.

Award-Winning

Award-Winning Service Desk

With over 20 years of experience, we’ve built a reputation we’re proud of. Winning awards for both our managed IT and managed security services means we don’t just claim to be the experts. With Stripe OLT you are guaranteed an exceptional experience.

Certified Cyber Security

Accredited Security Experts

Employing both ex-government and military veterans, we ensure our clients are protected by the best. Our engineers are IASME, CREST & Microsoft security certified (to name a few), consistently performing at a high level, 24/7.

Cloud Expertise

Specialists in Azure Cloud Services

At Stripe OLT we specialise in secure cloud technology, with a particular focus on Microsoft Azure. Our experts will empower you with the most appropriate, reliable and tailored cloud services, for maximum benefit whether you need a fully managed services provider for private, public or hybrid cloud.

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Microsoft Defender for Business FAQs

What is the difference between Windows Defender and Microsoft Defender for Business?

Microsoft offers a multitude of Defender products that offer different protections some of which have changed names over the years. Windows Defender which was renamed to Microsoft Defender Antivirus comes bundled with the Microsoft Windows operating system. While the free security within Windows offers some very basic protections it is nothing on the scale that Microsoft Defender for Business offers.

What is Microsoft Defender for Office 365?

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 differs from Business in that its security offering focuses on the Office suite of Apps and Services, rather than endpoint and device attack protection. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will help protect against human-focused attacks within communication tools like Outlook and Teams. There are two plans, offered with protections against areas such as phishing, malware, file sharing, spam, and email compensation plus cyberattack simulation training and awareness.

Microsoft Defender for business vs Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Security

Both Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Business are solutions that focus on endpoint protection. This includes their core anti-virus, anti-ransomware and anti-malware capabilities that offer threat detection and response, vulnerability management attack surface reduction and integration into Microsoft 365. Where they differ is mostly in their complexity. As Defender for Business is designed for companies with up to 300 users, it offers a more streamlined approach with a dashboard to match.

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