Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
As we look at the four core services of Microsoft 365 Defender, MDE stands as the biggest in terms of its scope and ambition. It shares the same Defender branding as the consumer antivirus built into Windows 10/11, but it is much more.
Endpoint protection evolves into extended detection and response
To understand MDE, you need to understand the evolution of operating system antimalware. In this section, we will have a brief history lesson so you can understand the what, why, and how of MDE.
In the beginning
In the beginning, we had, by today’s standards, relatively basic software that tried to block, quarantine, delete, or clean based on file signatures. The vendor maintained their database of known malware with a hash of that malware, and your device would act if it found a file with that same hash. This signature approach can be called traditional protection.
As processing power, threat intelligence, and cloud capabilities improved...
