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Compare the marketMicrosoft Corporation produces a wide range of products and services, from computer software to consumer electronics. The company was founded in 1975 and has its headquarters in Washington DC but also operates worldwide as well through offices located at more than ten countries across six continents. Microsoft is best known for its Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, each of which has achieved near-ubiquity as a de facto standard in their respective areas. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The company's current public (MSFT) stock is valued at around US$40 billion, and as of June 2010 it was the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies. Microsoft is consistently ranked in the Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. corporations (Top 30 in 2009) and the Forbes Global 2000 list (Top 50). Microsoft’s product offering has be named a Leader in eight Forrester Wave Reports and in five Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports. This includes the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrants for Access Management and for Unified Endpoint Management Tools. Microsoft’s Defender product also scored highly in 2021 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation with a Visibility of 151/174.
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The Microsoft multi-platform and multi-cloud XDR solution provides comprehensive and integrated security tools for all aspects of the enterprise network. Microsoft's products and services protect against cyber attacks, both online or offline. The company is constantly innovating in order to provide safety for their customers from the ever-growing threats that exist within today’s digital world through multiple channels including anti-virus software designed specifically with home users at heart; Windows Defender ATP which provides defense against malware infections on personal devices like smartphones (androids) tablets etc.; Microsoft Email Security, a newer version of Office 365 that comes complete with anti-phishing features such as Smartlink Technology providing protection when clicking links inside emails. Microsoft’s shift in focus to cybersecurity with Microsoft Defender replacing the legacy Microsoft Security Essentials shows a commitment to countering present and future threats with the issue being taken more seriously. Previously many consumers would simply disable Microsoft’s legacy offering and replace it with a third-party service. However, unlike third party providers, Microsoft has placed an emphasis on the customisability of their Defender product. This in turn has laid down the gauntlet to third party security providers by setting the standard, challenging providers to improve their own product offering as Microsoft positions its own solution as a viable standalone offering, supported by a broad product range to further increase their value proposition.
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Microsoft 365 Defender:
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Utilizes Cloud Security Analytics, Threat intelligence and Endpoint Behavioral Sensors embedded in Windows 10 OSs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides the Next Generation of Protection, Attack Surface Reduction and Microsoft Threat Experts to protect you from sophisticated threats. The Automated Investigation & Remediation helps locate security vulnerabilities with technology that is capable of machine level response capabilities in case any arise on your device or network. With Secure Score Microsoft provide insights into how devices are used so they can be improved accordingly ensuring the security of user and device data.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Defender for Cloud is a powerful tool that helps you strengthen the security posture of your cloud resources. It is integrated with Microsoft Defender plans, so it can protect workloads running in Azure or any other platform - no matter where they're hosted. With its easy deployment and simple auto provisioning features; this product has everything needed in a turn-key solution. The solution provides security recommendations, security alerts and a secure score to assess security posture, recommend improvements and detect threats to resources and workloads which can also be streamed to a SOAR, SIEM or IT Service Management solution.
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Microsoft’s Defender products are available as a DIY solution only. There is support available to enterprise Security Operations Centers in the form of Microsoft Threat Experts that offer a managed threat hunting service. This service is opt-in and will most likely incur an additional charge.
Microsoft has a robust offering to keep remote users secure, including: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for 365 and Intune; Microsoft's software that helps organizations remotely manage security settings on devices. There are also services such as Microsoft Authenticator (to be used as part of an Multi-Factor Authentication process), Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps or Secure Score which assesses risk levels associated with employees' usage habits like productivity data from work portals - all part of an employee protection strategy in todays hybrid-working/work from home environment. There are also services like the Azure Active Directory Conditional Access service which enables IT administrators to manage access rights remotely across on-premises resources as well as cloud apps hosted through companies' clouds (e.g., Office 365). Azure Active Directory Application Proxy can also be used to provide remote access to business critical web applications that must be hosted on-premises. Remote users are also protected by Exchange Online Protection (EOP). EOP users can control who has access rights as well as recovering messages if they get hacked; this service also helps prevent malware from attacking accounts via email attachments or links within them because it scans all content before reaching clients' inboxes.
*statistics from 2020
Microsoft 365 Defender Portal: The Microsoft 365 Defender Portal is a single, unified portal available on computer or mobile device that brings together all your defenses against the latest threats. With it you can manage both current and future products from this trusted provider like Office or Endpoint protection tools for enterprises on-premise with direct malware detection abilities into their own infrastructure via cloud telemetry monitoring services providing real time alerts.
Azure Sentinel: Microsoft’s cloud-based SIEM solution. Azure Sentinel is designed to provide a single platform for alert detection and response. The platform integrates natively with the Defender range of product to provide insights and analysis tools to aggregated data. The system can be customized to business needs by adding in various components such as SOAR or threat visibility features.
Additional security software providers can be such as independent software vendors can be sourced through the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association. Other security software providers such as; security architects, systems integrators and managed security solutions providers (MSSPs) can be acquired through Microsoft AppSource.
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