Using the M365 Defender portal

To help centralize the management and configuration of the Microsoft Defender products, the M365 Defender portal provides a single pane of glass experience. This helps simplify security operations and increase efficiencies by combining portals, allowing easier correlation of security threats across much of the Microsoft security suite to be viewed from one centralized place. The M365 Defender portal can be accessed by going to https://security.microsoft.com. The security team will need to be assigned a Global Administrator, Global Reader, Security Administrator, Security Operator, or Security Reader role to view data, with other fine-grained access controls available depending on the products they need to access. From the landing page, you can add and organize cards to quickly visualize activities across the products holistically. This can be seen in the following screenshot from the M365 Defender portal landing page:

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