Microsoft Defender for Business
Endpoint protectionMdb Overview
In brief
The overview now has revised introductory and capability descriptions, clearer image text, corrected grammar, and improved table and footnote formatting.
What Defender admins need to know
Administrators get a clearer reference for Defender for Business capabilities, data retention, and licensing details.
Summaries are generated from the documentation change itself.
Documentation change
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description: Learn about Microsoft Defender for BusinessBusiness, which is a cybersecurity solution for small and medium sized businesses. Defender for Business protects against threats across your devices.
author: chrisda
ms.author: chrisda
ms.topic: overview
Defender for Business is available in the following subscriptions:
Standalone: Available to non-Microsoft organizations or eligible Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organizations with up to 300 users. For example:
- Microsoft 365 Business Basic
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard
- Office 365 E1
Defender for Business includes a full range of device protection capabilities, as shown in the following diagram:
With Defender for Business, you can help protect the devices and data your business uses with:
Enterprise-grade security: Defender for Business brings powerful endpoint security capabilities from
ourthe industry-leading Microsoft Defender for Endpoint solution and optimizes those capabilities for IT administrators to support small and medium sized businesses.An easy-to-use security solution: Defender for Business offers streamlined experiences that guide you to action with recommendations and insights into the security of your endpoints. No specialized knowledge is
required, becauserequired. Defender for Business offers wizard-driven configuration and default security policies that are designed to help protect your company's devices from day one.Flexibility for your environment: Defender for Business can work with your business environment, whether you're using Microsoft Intune or you're brand new to the Microsoft Cloud. Defender for Business works with components that are built into Windows, and with apps for Mac, iOS, and Android devices.
Integration with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, RMM tools, and PSA software:
- Microsoft cloud solution providers (CSPs)
usingwho use Microsoft 365 Lighthouse can view security incidents and alerts across customer organizations. For more information, see Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and Defender for Business. - Microsoft managed service providers (MSPs) can integrate Defender for Business with remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools and professional service automation (PSA) software. For more information, see Defender for Business and MSP resources.
- Microsoft cloud solution providers (CSPs)
How does Defender for Business compare to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint?
| Automatic attack disruption | ✔ | | ✔ |
| Centralized management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Cross-platform support (Mac, iOS/iPadOS, Android) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Data retention:
- 30 days advanced hunting
- Six months of data retention | | | ✔ |
| Endpoint detection & response (EDR) | ✔ (optimized) | | ✔ |
| Microsoft 365 Lighthouse (optimized; for CSPs only) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Microsoft Defender multitenant management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Threat analytics | ✔ (optimized) | | ✔ |
| Vulnerability management (core capabilities) | ✔ | | ✔ |
^*^ Protection for Windows servers and Linux servers is available, but requires extra licenses. For more information, see Does Defender for Business support servers?.
How does Defender for Business compare to Microsoft 365 Business Premium?
Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes Defender for Business and provides more cybersecurity and productivity capabilities as showingshown in the following diagram.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ permissioned-type: public feedback_product_url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/ct-p/MicrosoftSecurityandCompliance uhfHeaderId: MSDocsHeader-MicrosoftDefender manager: bagol-description: Microsoft Defender for Business is a cybersecurity solution for small and medium sized businesses. Defender for Business protects against threats across your devices.+description: Learn about Microsoft Defender for Business, which is a cybersecurity solution for small and medium sized businesses. author: chrisda ms.author: chrisda ms.topic: overview@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Microsoft Defender for Business is an endpoint security solution based on [Micro Defender for Business is available in the following subscriptions:
- **Standalone**: Available to non-Microsoft organizations or eligible Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organizations with up to 300 users. For example:
+
- Microsoft 365 Business Basic
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard
- Office 365 E1
@@ -69,16 +70,16 @@ This article describes what's included in Defender for Business and provides lin
Defender for Business includes a full range of device protection capabilities, as shown in the following diagram:
-
+
With Defender for Business, you can help protect the devices and data your business uses with:
-- **Enterprise-grade security**: Defender for Business brings powerful endpoint security capabilities from our industry-leading [Microsoft Defender for Endpoint](/en-us/defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-endpoint) solution and optimizes those capabilities for IT administrators to support small and medium sized businesses.
-- **An easy-to-use security solution**: Defender for Business offers streamlined experiences that guide you to action with recommendations and insights into the security of your endpoints. No specialized knowledge is required, because Defender for Business offers wizard-driven configuration and default security policies that are designed to help protect your company's devices from day one.
+- **Enterprise-grade security**: Defender for Business brings powerful endpoint security capabilities from the industry-leading [Microsoft Defender for Endpoint](/en-us/defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-endpoint) solution and optimizes those capabilities for IT administrators to support small and medium sized businesses.
+- **An easy-to-use security solution**: Defender for Business offers streamlined experiences that guide you to action with recommendations and insights into the security of your endpoints. No specialized knowledge is required. Defender for Business offers wizard-driven configuration and default security policies that are designed to help protect your company's devices from day one.
- **Flexibility for your environment**: Defender for Business can work with your business environment, whether you're using Microsoft Intune or you're brand new to the Microsoft Cloud. Defender for Business works with components that are built into Windows, and with apps for Mac, iOS, and Android devices.
- **Integration with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, RMM tools, and PSA software**:
- - Microsoft cloud solution providers (CSPs) using [Microsoft 365 Lighthouse](/en-us/microsoft-365/lighthouse/m365-lighthouse-overview) can view security incidents and alerts across customer organizations. For more information, see [Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and Defender for Business](mdb-lighthouse-integration)
+ - Microsoft cloud solution providers (CSPs) who use [Microsoft 365 Lighthouse](/en-us/microsoft-365/lighthouse/m365-lighthouse-overview) can view security incidents and alerts across customer organizations. For more information, see [Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and Defender for Business](mdb-lighthouse-integration).
- Microsoft managed service providers (MSPs) can integrate Defender for Business with remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools and professional service automation (PSA) software. For more information, see [Defender for Business and MSP resources](mdb-partners).
## How does Defender for Business compare to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint?
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ Defender for Business includes the features of Defender for Endpoint Plan 1, som | Automatic attack disruption | ✔ | | ✔ |
| Centralized management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Cross-platform support (Mac, iOS/iPadOS, Android) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
-| Data retention: <br>- 30 days advanced hunting<br>Six months of data retention | | | ✔ |
+| Data retention: <br>- 30 days advanced hunting<br>- Six months of data retention | | | ✔ |
| Endpoint detection & response (EDR) | ✔ (optimized) | | ✔ |
| Microsoft 365 Lighthouse (optimized; for CSPs only) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Microsoft Defender multitenant management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
@@ -105,11 +106,11 @@ Defender for Business includes the features of Defender for Endpoint Plan 1, som | Threat analytics | ✔ (optimized) | | ✔ |
| Vulnerability management (core capabilities) | ✔ | | ✔ |
-^\*^ Protection for Windows servers and Linux servers is available, but requires extra licenses. For more information, see [Does Defender for Business support servers?](mdb-faq#does-defender-for-business-support-servers).
+^\*^ Protection for Windows servers and Linux servers is available, but requires extra licenses. For more information, see [Does Defender for Business support servers?](mdb-faq#does-defender-for-business-support-servers)
## How does Defender for Business compare to Microsoft 365 Business Premium?
-Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes Defender for Business and provides more cybersecurity and productivity capabilities as showing in the following diagram.
+Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes Defender for Business and provides more cybersecurity and productivity capabilities as shown in the following diagram.
