Defender everywhere

We started our journey with Defender Antivirus and its predecessors. It is now a product that is protecting hundreds of millions of devices across the world, top scoring in independent AV tests. It sits at the core of the prevention capabilities inside MDE—on Windows, macOS, and Linux, as well as Android and iOS. With attack surface reduction innovations and the expansion to a feature-rich EDR that is continuously battle-tested inside one of the largest solutions and cloud providers in the world (Microsoft), acclaimed by independent testing providers such as MITRE, you have a truly impressive set of security capabilities at your disposal.

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MDE is also integrated into other products/suites, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Today, it also forms the foundation and an integral part of Microsoft’s extended detection and response (XDR) Microsoft 365 Defender, initially defining the genre by aggressively pursuing cross-suite integration across identities, cloud apps, email, data, and—of course—endpoints. In addition, many other Microsoft cloud services (including other security solutions) use Defender components for endpoint security and also behind the scenes.