{"id":58752,"date":"2025-06-03T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/?p=138526"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:00:00","slug":"how-microsoft-defender-for-endpoint-is-redefining-endpoint-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/how-microsoft-defender-for-endpoint-is-redefining-endpoint-security\/","title":{"rendered":"How Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is redefining endpoint security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Securing your digital estate with endpoint detection and response (EDR) across all platforms, devices, and Internet of Things (IoT) has never been more challenging. A rapidly evolving cyberthreat landscape has seen cyberattacks grow in sophistication, evolving from randomized single domain cyberattacks to targeted and methodical multidomain cyberattacks tailored to the specific vulnerabilities and unique attack surfaces within each organization.<\/p>\n

In fact, over the last 18 months, our threat protection research teams have observed a 275% increase in ransomware encounters.<\/strong> In these cyberattacks, threat actors tend to target identities and devices for gaining initial access. Microsoft disrupts 35,000 such incidents each month. But not only has the volume of cyberattacks increased, so too has the speed of execution. Cyberattacks used to take days before affecting organizations, but today thousands of devices can be encrypted in less than five minutes.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the likelihood of a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint<\/a> customer getting encrypted over the past 18 months has also decreased by 300%.<\/em><\/strong> Microsoft disabled and contained 120,000 compromised user accounts and saved more than 180,000 devices in the last six months alone.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft delivers comprehensive endpoint protection<\/h2>\n

Not only does Microsoft have the largest market share in modern endpoint security worldwide, we see more attack data than any other security vendor. We process more than 84 trillion signals every day across data sources like novel cyberattacks, malware, ransomware, and fraud while leveraging dynamic insights from 10,000 full-time security experts. This gives us early signal into emerging threat vectors that we refactor into our detection and response systems.<\/p>\n

Powered by AI and built on the broadest global threat and human intelligence, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides comprehensive protection across all platforms, from mobile to servers to IoT\u2014including Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android. This empowers the security operations center (SOC) with industry-leading threat protection to stay one step ahead of the evolving cyberthreat landscape.<\/p>\n

Defender for Endpoint is part of the Microsoft Defender XDR<\/a> platform, natively integrated with the full breadth of security solutions that comprise our unified security operations platform.<\/p>\n

Why do CISOs prefer Microsoft Defender for Endpoint?<\/h2>\n

Defender for Endpoint is purpose-built for the SOC and offers a series of capabilities that help you reduce your attack surface, accelerate your security workflows, and respond quicker and more effectively than ever before. These are just a few of the reasons most chief information security officers (CISOs) choose Microsoft to protect their device estate.<\/p>\n