Microsoft Defender for Business Reviews

I use Microsoft Defender for Business in terms of endpoint security.

Integration capabilities enhance the overall security by enabling easy integration with other Microsoft tools.

I have a lot of clients and I use Microsoft Defender for Business when we have certain types of licenses. It comes with Microsoft Business Premium. However, it is not available for many of my clients due to the high license cost, which makes it difficult to sell. I have a couple of clients who use it.

The security features are valuable because they come with more capabilities that other licenses do not have, including the enterprise license like E3. It offers better security than the Microsoft Business Plan provides.

I use Defender as an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and as enrichment for investigations. It mainly serves as the EDR and the source of information for Microsoft Sentinel.

Defender's main strength is its integration with Microsoft Sentinel, offering valuable insights. The embedded threat intelligence is helpful, and the tool's ease of use contributes significantly to its value. 

The integration and collaboration between Microsoft Sentinel and Defender enable quick mitigation through connected identifications. This leads to security improvements and reduced time for investigations, offering time-saving benefits.

As the Chief Information Security Officer, I am utilizing Microsoft Defender for Business as part of our cybersecurity tool kit. I focused on integrating it with our existing security solutions to enhance protection across our environments.

It elevated by identifying the known threats and help to triage it proactively

As a reseller of Microsoft solutions, I use Microsoft Defender for Business primarily for endpoint protection across both laptops and desktops. Additionally, the solution is implemented for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Windows 365 services. I use the solution extensively for enterprise-level protection.

The solution provides a comprehensive dashboard for Microsoft 365, allowing me to view everything from a single interface. Due to its effective vulnerability management and risk protection services, it simplifies operations for my customers and enables them to manage issues efficiently without relying on additional defender solutions.

We predominantly use it to protect our desktops and laptops. It is used across our endpoint ecosystem. We use it for every device. We have more than 20,000 devices, and we deployed Defender about two years ago. It essentially protects all our endpoints.

Microsoft Defender for Business has made us a lot quicker to respond to these threats. In the past, what used to take sometimes days and weeks is now a matter of hours, so it gives us much quicker response times. Overall, it has improved our security posture, so some of these do not even become incidents because it does a good job of protecting our endpoints. In the past, what would have made its way further into our ecosystem gets blocked at the edge. These are a few benefits.

Alerting has helped to improve our security. We also get quarterly updates and monthly updates on the big trends that are happening, which also helps us. The combination of the alerting on the endpoint and the briefings and updates we get are helpful for our security.

Microsoft Defender for Business has affected our security posture. We are definitely better than where we were. We are happy with our decision. All my feedback was to make it better and be happy with the product as a whole.

Microsoft Defender for Business saves us time and money. It does make my team more productive. There is about 15% to 20% productivity improvement for my security teams. Those are the folks who typically work on these issues, so there is definitely improvement there. 

It also reduces the nuisance alerts, which we used to get with our previous software. It does help the end users as well. They do not get distracted by a lot of noise and just focus on their jobs.