Week in brief

Security alerts and incidents leads 1297 Defender updates

Week of 15 June 2026 recorded 464 new, 831 updated, 1 removed Microsoft Defender documentation changes and 1 relevant Message Center announcement. The most active areas were Defender for Cloud, Endpoint, Defender XDR.

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This period briefing was assembled from the tracked Microsoft Learn and Message Center changes.

Updates this week

44

Manage Incidents

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/manage-incidents.md.

19 June 2026

Activate Defender Rbac

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/activate-defender-rbac.md.

19 June 2026

Configure Event Hub

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/configure-event-hub.md.

18 June 2026

DeviceTvmSoftwareVulnerabilities

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/advanced-hunting-devicetvmsoftwarevulnerabilities-table.md.

16 June 2026

DeviceTvmSoftwareVulnerabilitiesKB

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/advanced-hunting-devicetvmsoftwarevulnerabilitieskb-table.md.

16 June 2026

DeviceTvmSoftwareInventory

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/advanced-hunting-devicetvmsoftwareinventory-table.md.

16 June 2026

DeviceTvmHardwareFirmware

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/advanced-hunting-devicetvmhardwarefirmware-table.md.

16 June 2026

DeviceTvmInfoGathering

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/advanced-hunting-devicetvminfogathering-table.md.

16 June 2026

DeviceTvmInfoGatheringKB

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/advanced-hunting-devicetvminfogatheringkb-table.md.

16 June 2026

DeviceTvmSoftwareEvidenceBeta

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/advanced-hunting-devicetvmsoftwareevidencebeta-table.md.

16 June 2026

Manage Incidents

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/manage-incidents.md.

15 June 2026
14

Custom Detection Rules

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/custom-detection-rules.md.

19 June 2026

Custom Detection Rules

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/custom-detection-rules.md.

15 June 2026
3

Alert Policies

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/alert-policies.md.

17 June 2026
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196

Discover Local Ai Agents

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/discover-local-ai-agents.md.

21 June 2026

Enable exploit protection

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/enable-exploit-protection.md.

19 June 2026

Turn on block at first sight

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/configure-block-at-first-sight-microsoft-defender-antivirus.md.

19 June 2026

Manage event-based forced updates

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/manage-event-based-updates-microsoft-defender-antivirus.md.

19 June 2026

Specify the cloud protection level

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/specify-cloud-protection-level-microsoft-defender-antivirus.md.

19 June 2026

Exploit protection reference

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/exploit-protection-reference.md.

19 June 2026

Evaluate exploit protection

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/evaluate-exploit-protection.md.

19 June 2026

Android Configure

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/android-configure.md.

19 June 2026

Android Configure Mam

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/android-configure-mam.md.

19 June 2026

Ios Configure Features

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/ios-configure-features.md.

19 June 2026

Turn on network protection

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/enable-network-protection.md.

18 June 2026

Customize Controlled Folders

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/customize-controlled-folders.md.

18 June 2026

Sign in to Jamf Pro

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/mac-install-jamfpro-login.md.

18 June 2026

Microsoft Defender Endpoint

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-endpoint.md.

17 June 2026

Network protection demonstrations

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/defender-endpoint-demonstration-network-protection.md.

16 June 2026

Evaluate network protection

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/evaluate-network-protection.md.

16 June 2026

Manage suppression rules

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/manage-suppression-rules.md.

16 June 2026

Customize exploit protection

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/customize-exploit-protection.md.

16 June 2026

Offboard Machines

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/offboard-machines.md.

16 June 2026

Fetch Alerts Mssp

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/api/fetch-alerts-mssp.md.

15 June 2026

Threat Indicator Concepts

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/threat-indicator-concepts.md.

15 June 2026

Discover Local Ai Agents

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/discover-local-ai-agents.md.

15 June 2026

Respond File Alerts

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/respond-file-alerts.md.

15 June 2026

Rbac

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/rbac.md.

15 June 2026

Respond Machine Alerts

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/respond-machine-alerts.md.

15 June 2026

Review Detected Threats

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/review-detected-threats.md.

15 June 2026
10
5

Troubleshoot Asr

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/troubleshoot-asr.md.

19 June 2026

Troubleshoot Mdatp

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/troubleshoot-mdatp.md.

15 June 2026
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20

Mdo About

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-office-365/mdo-about.md.

17 June 2026

Mdo About

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-office-365/mdo-about.md.

17 June 2026
1
4

Alerts Mdi Classic

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/alerts-mdi-classic.md.

18 June 2026

Whats New

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/whats-new.md.

17 June 2026
6

Application inventory

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud-apps/applications-inventory.md.

16 June 2026

What's new archive

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud-apps/release-note-archive.md.

16 June 2026
768

Exempt Resource

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/exempt-resource.md.

21 June 2026

Exempt Resources At Scale

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/exempt-resources-at-scale.md.

21 June 2026

Containers Permissions

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/containers-permissions.md.

18 June 2026

AKS security dashboard

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-fifty-eight.md.

17 June 2026

Data and AI security dashboard

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/data-aware-security-dashboard-overview.md.

17 June 2026

Define an adoption strategy

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-define-adoption-strategy.md.

17 June 2026

Determine access control requirements

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-determine-access-control-requirements.md.

17 June 2026

Determine business needs

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-determine-business-needs.md.

17 June 2026

Determine compliance requirements

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-determine-compliance-requirements.md.

17 June 2026

Determine data residency requirements

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-determine-data-residency-requirements.md.

17 June 2026

Determine multicloud dependencies

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-determine-multicloud-dependencies.md.

17 June 2026

Determine ownership requirements

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-determine-ownership-requirements.md.

17 June 2026

Review data security alerts

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/review-data-security-alerts.md.

17 June 2026

Security recommendations

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/security-recommendations.md.

17 June 2026

Release Notes

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/release-notes.md.

17 June 2026

Release Notes

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/release-notes.md.

17 June 2026

Alerts Azure Storage

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/alerts-azure-storage.md.

17 June 2026

Cloud Scopes Unified Rbac

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/cloud-scopes-unified-rbac.md.

17 June 2026

Release Notes

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/release-notes.md.

17 June 2026

Agentless code scanning

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-sixty-three.md.

17 June 2026

Agentless machine scanning

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/concept-agentless-data-collection.md.

17 June 2026

Alerts schemas

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/alerts-schemas.md.

17 June 2026

Cloud asset inventory

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/asset-inventory.md.

17 June 2026

Cloud overview dashboard

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/cloud-infrastructure-dashboard.md.

17 June 2026

Configure GCP plans

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/configure-google-plans.md.

17 June 2026

Connect an integration

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/connect-an-integration.md.

17 June 2026

Defender for Cloud glossary

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-glossary.md.

17 June 2026

Defender for Servers support

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/support-matrix-defender-for-servers.md.

17 June 2026

Defender for Storage

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-thirteen.md.

17 June 2026

Download a CSV report

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/export-alerts-to-csv.md.

17 June 2026

Edit DevOps connectors

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/edit-devops-connector.md.

17 June 2026

Enable File Integrity Monitoring

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/file-integrity-monitoring-enable-defender-endpoint.md.

17 June 2026

Enable just-in-time access

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/enable-just-in-time-access.md.

17 June 2026

Exempt resources at scale

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/exempt-resources-at-scale.md.

17 June 2026

FAQ for Defender portal

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/defender-portal/integration-faq.md.

17 June 2026

File integrity monitoring

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/file-integrity-monitoring-overview.md.

17 June 2026

Improve regulatory compliance

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/regulatory-compliance-dashboard.md.

17 June 2026

Just-in-time machine access

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/just-in-time-access-overview.md.

17 June 2026

Machine secrets scanning

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/secrets-scanning-servers.md.

17 June 2026

Malware scanning

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/agentless-malware-scanning.md.

17 June 2026

Microsoft CNAPP solution

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-forty-eight.md.

17 June 2026

New secure score

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-sixty-six.md.

17 June 2026

On-demand malware scanning

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/on-demand-malware-scanning.md.

17 June 2026

On-upload malware scanning

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/on-upload-malware-scanning.md.

17 June 2026

Planning and operations guide

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-planning-and-operations-guide.md.

17 June 2026

Protect network resources

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/protect-network-resources.md.

17 June 2026

Release Notes

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/release-notes.md.

17 June 2026

Remediate machine secrets

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/remediate-server-secrets.md.

17 June 2026

Review workload protection

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/workload-protections-dashboard.md.

17 June 2026

Secrets Scanning

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/secrets-scanning.md.

17 June 2026

Secrets Scanning Code

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/secrets-scanning-code.md.

17 June 2026

Storage aggregated logs

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-sixty-four.md.

17 June 2026

Security Recommendations

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/security-recommendations.md.

15 June 2026

Determine ownership requirements

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-determine-ownership-requirements.md.

15 June 2026

Risk prioritization

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/risk-prioritization.md.

15 June 2026

AKS security dashboard

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-fifty-eight.md.

15 June 2026

Alerts for AI services

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/alerts-ai-workloads.md.

15 June 2026

Alerts for Azure Storage

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/alerts-azure-storage.md.

15 June 2026

Alerts for DNS

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/alerts-dns.md.

15 June 2026

Alerts for Linux machines

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/alerts-linux-machines.md.

15 June 2026

Configure GCP plans

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/configure-google-plans.md.

15 June 2026

Connect your AWS account

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/quickstart-onboard-aws.md.

15 June 2026

Connect your GCP project

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/quickstart-onboard-gcp.md.

15 June 2026

Enable File Integrity Monitoring

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/file-integrity-monitoring-enable-defender-endpoint.md.

15 June 2026

Enable just-in-time access

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/enable-just-in-time-access.md.

15 June 2026

Manage user data

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/privacy.md.

15 June 2026

Workflow automation

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/workflow-automations.md.

15 June 2026

Connect your GitLab groups

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/quickstart-onboard-gitlab.md.

15 June 2026

Other threat protections

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/other-threat-protections.md.

15 June 2026

Exempt resources at scale

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/exempt-resources-at-scale.md.

15 June 2026

Threat intelligence report

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/threat-intelligence-reports.md.

15 June 2026

Connect an integration

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/connect-an-integration.md.

15 June 2026

Download a CSV report

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/export-alerts-to-csv.md.

15 June 2026

Edit DevOps connectors

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/edit-devops-connector.md.

15 June 2026

Defender for Storage

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-thirteen.md.

15 June 2026

Cross-tenant management

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/cross-tenant-management.md.

15 June 2026

New secure score

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-sixty-six.md.

15 June 2026

Storage aggregated logs

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-sixty-four.md.

15 June 2026

Agentless code scanning

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-sixty-three.md.

15 June 2026

Policy Reference

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/policy-reference.md.

15 June 2026

Release Notes Archive

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/release-notes-archive.md.

15 June 2026

Connect Azure Subscription

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/connect-azure-subscription.md.

15 June 2026

Privacy

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/privacy.md.

15 June 2026

Zero Trust

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/zero-trust.md.

15 June 2026
47

Onboard a management group

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/onboard-management-group.md.

15 June 2026
47

Automate connector deployment

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-automate-connector-deployment.md.

17 June 2026

Automate connector deployment

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/plan-multicloud-security-automate-connector-deployment.md.

15 June 2026

Alerts schema

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/alerts-schemas.md.

15 June 2026

Onboard with PowerShell

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/powershell-onboarding.md.

15 June 2026

New AWS connector

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-one.md.

15 June 2026

New GCP connector

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-seven.md.

15 June 2026
14

Resolve agentless scan error

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/resolve-disk-scanning-error.md.

17 June 2026
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Internet exposure analysis

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/internet-exposure-analysis.md.

17 June 2026

Cloud asset inventory

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/asset-inventory.md.

15 June 2026

Internet exposure analysis

New

Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/internet-exposure-analysis.md.

15 June 2026
5

Security alert correlation

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/episode-thirty-five.md.

17 June 2026

Quickstart Automation Alert

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/quickstart-automation-alert.md.

15 June 2026

Alert Validation

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-cloud/alert-validation.md.

15 June 2026
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11

Monitor site security

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-iot/monitor-site-security.md.

18 June 2026

Discover and manage devices

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-iot/manage-devices-inventory.md.

18 June 2026
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Create Custom Graphs

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/datalake/create-custom-graphs.md.

21 June 2026

For Standard Read

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/datalake/sentinel-graph-provider-reference.md.

18 June 2026

Entity Behaviors Layer

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/entity-behaviors-layer.md.

18 June 2026

Package Platform Solution

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/package-platform-solution.md.

18 June 2026

Deployment Overview

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/sap/deployment-overview.md.

18 June 2026

Feature Availability

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/feature-availability.md.

18 June 2026

Notebook Jobs

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/datalake/notebook-jobs.md.

18 June 2026

Notebooks

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/datalake/notebooks.md.

18 June 2026

Sentinel Security Copilot

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/sentinel-security-copilot.md.

17 June 2026

Migration Export Ingest

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/migration-export-ingest.md.

15 June 2026

Migration Ingestion Tool

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/migration-ingestion-tool.md.

15 June 2026
6

Configure Data Connector

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/configure-data-connector.md.

18 June 2026

Create Codeless Connector

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/create-codeless-connector.md.

18 June 2026
1

Kql Queries

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/datalake/kql-queries.md.

18 June 2026
1

Incident Investigation

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in sentinel/incident-investigation.md.

18 June 2026
2

Release notes

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in exposure-management/whats-new.md.

18 June 2026
13

Tvm Block Vuln Apps

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-block-vuln-apps.md.

18 June 2026

Hunt for exposed devices

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-hunt-exposed-devices.md.

18 June 2026

Tvm Browser Extensions

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-browser-extensions.md.

18 June 2026

Fixed Reported Inaccuracies

Updated

Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.

17 June 2026
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