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Endpoint protectionSet up Email Notifications for Your Security Team - Microsoft Defender for Business | Microsoft Learn
In brief
The page title and wording were updated, the introductory “What to do” section was removed, and guidance for alert, vulnerability, and user-assignment rules was simplified.
What Defender admins need to know
Use the revised guidance when configuring notifications; no administrator action is specified.
Summaries are generated from the documentation change itself.
Documentation change
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Set up email notificationsEmail Notifications for your security teamYour Security Team - Microsoft Defender for Business | Microsoft Learn
This article describes how to set up email notifications for your security team.
When you can set up email notifications for your security team, they can beget notified viaby email whenever any alerts are generated, or new vulnerabilities are discovered.
What to do
Learn about types of email notifications.View and edit email notification settings.Proceed to your next steps.
Types of email notifications
Email notifications aren't the only way your security team can find out about new alerts or vulnerabilities. For example:
- Whenever your security team signs
intoin to the Microsoft Defender portal, they see cardshighlightingthat highlight new threats, alerts, and vulnerabilities. Microsoft Defender for Business is designed to highlight important information that your security team cares about as soon as they sign in. - The Incidents page. To learn more, see View and manage incidents in Defender for Business.
View and edit email notifications
In the navigation pane, select Settings, and then select Endpoints. Then, under General, select Email notifications.
Review the information on the Alerts and Vulnerabilities tabs.
- If you don't see any items listed on the Alerts tab,
you cancreate a rule for people to be notified when alerts are generated.To get help with this task, seeSee Create rules for alert notifications. - If you don't see any items listed on the Vulnerabilities tab,
you cancreate a rule for people to be notified whenever a new vulnerability is discovered.To get help with this task, seeSee Create rules for vulnerability events. - If you do have rules created, select a rule to edit it. You can also delete a rule.
- If you don't see any items listed on the Alerts tab,
Important
When you set up email notifications in Defender for Business, you must assign the notification rules to specific users. Defender for Business doesn't use role-based access control like Defender for Endpoint does.
You can't apply email notifications to device groups in Defender for Business. \ No newline at end of file
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: Conceptual-title: Set up email notifications for your security team - Microsoft Defender for Business | Microsoft Learn+title: Set up Email Notifications for Your Security Team - Microsoft Defender for Business | Microsoft Learn canonicalUrl: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-business/mdb-email-notifications breadcrumb_path: /defender-business/breadcrumb/toc.json feedback_system: Standard@@ -43,19 +43,13 @@ spProducts: platformId: eac84425-454b-0d56-6a72-8a1a470173f2 --- -# Set up email notifications for your security team - Microsoft Defender for Business | Microsoft Learn+# Set up Email Notifications for Your Security Team - Microsoft Defender for Business | Microsoft Learn This article describes how to set up email notifications for your security team.
-When you can set up email notifications for your security team, they can be notified via email whenever any alerts are generated, or new vulnerabilities are discovered.
-
-## What to do
-
-1. Learn about types of email notifications.
-2. View and edit email notification settings.
-3. Proceed to your next steps.
+When you set up email notifications for your security team, they get notified by email whenever any alerts are generated, or new vulnerabilities are discovered.
## Types of email notifications
@@ -68,7 +62,7 @@ Tip
**Email notifications aren't the only way your security team can find out about new alerts or vulnerabilities**. For example:
-- Whenever your security team signs into the Microsoft Defender portal, they see cards highlighting new threats, alerts, and vulnerabilities. Defender for Business is designed to highlight important information that your security team cares about as soon as they sign in.
+- Whenever your security team signs in to the Microsoft Defender portal, they see cards that highlight new threats, alerts, and vulnerabilities. Microsoft Defender for Business is designed to highlight important information that your security team cares about as soon as they sign in.
- The **Incidents** page. To learn more, see [View and manage incidents in Defender for Business](mdb-view-manage-incidents).
## View and edit email notifications
@@ -79,12 +73,12 @@ To view or edit email notification settings for your company, follow these steps 2. In the navigation pane, select **Settings**, and then select **Endpoints**. Then, under **General**, select **Email notifications**.
3. Review the information on the **Alerts** and **Vulnerabilities** tabs.
- - If you don't see any items listed on the **Alerts** tab, you can create a rule for people to be notified when alerts are generated. To get help with this task, see [Create rules for alert notifications](/en-us/defender-xdr/configure-email-notifications).
- - If you don't see any items listed on the **Vulnerabilities** tab, you can create a rule for people to be notified whenever a new vulnerability is discovered. To get help with this task, see [Create rules for vulnerability events](/en-us/defender-endpoint/configure-vulnerability-email-notifications).
+ - If you don't see any items listed on the **Alerts** tab, create a rule for people to be notified when alerts are generated. See [Create rules for alert notifications](/en-us/defender-xdr/configure-email-notifications).
+ - If you don't see any items listed on the **Vulnerabilities** tab, create a rule for people to be notified whenever a new vulnerability is discovered. See [Create rules for vulnerability events](/en-us/defender-endpoint/configure-vulnerability-email-notifications).
- If you do have rules created, select a rule to edit it. You can also delete a rule.
Important
-When you set up email notifications in Defender for Business, you must assign the notification rules to specific users. Defender for Business doesn't use [role-based access control like Defender for Endpoint does](/en-us/defender-endpoint/rbac).
+When you set up email notifications in Defender for Business, assign the notification rules to specific users. Defender for Business doesn't use [role-based access control like Defender for Endpoint does](/en-us/defender-endpoint/rbac).
You can't apply email notifications to device groups in Defender for Business.\ No newline at end of file