Microsoft Defender ATP: Threat Protection For Windows Clients

Microsoft 365 provides a holistic approach to security, helping you to protect identities, data, applications, and devices across on-premises, cloud, and mobile. As an architect for Modern Workplace topics, customers often ask me to present the Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Suite in specific, so let’s take a look at what Microsoft Defender ATP really means.

Let's start with the Microsoft Defender Antivirus (AV) that is integrated with Windows 10. This antivirus program has nothing in common with its predecessors from Microsoft like Microsoft Security Essentials. Independent institutes give the impressive AV performance top marks. This means that the Defender AV is Enterprise-ready, so to say. The Gartner Magic Quadrant for “Endpoint Protection Platforms” also confirms this assessment.

There are other advantages to using Defender AV: It's free and the only AV solution that is so deeply embedded in the operating system that it's easy to use with the biannual feature upgrades. Furthermore, the use of deployment of additional security features within Windows 10 makes it possible to

• reduce the attack surface, e.g. to block executable content from email clients and browser-based email services
• control folder access, which means, for example, that all encryption Trojans like Petya are unable to access and therefore encrypt user libraries.

It is worth noting, however that the integrated Microsoft Defender AV is pattern-based, so it can only detect zero-day exploits if they have already been included in the security intelligence updates.

The Microsoft Defender ATP Next Generation Protection Engine enables Microsoft Defender AV to protect the client against threats that are not yet detected or known. In addition, machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms are used to identify and eliminate new and undetected threats.

A ticket can now be opened to update VLC.

Now it is possible to process the opened ticket as a ‘Security Task’ within Microsoft Endpoint Manager (formerly Intune) and to update VLC.

Integration of TVM with Microsoft Endpoint Manager is a major simplification in eliminating threats and vulnerabilities, both in terms of Windows updates and within applications.