Huntress Launches Managed Microsoft Defender Service
Summary
Huntress introduced a service for partners to centrally monitor and manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus settings, alerts, and endpoint health across their Windows devices.
Key points
- The service lets partners centrally monitor and manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus configuration across endpoints.
- Configuration inheritance across accounts and organizations supports enforcing settings across managed endpoints.
- Administrators can review Defender incidents, event details, and remediation steps.
- The service provides endpoint health, antivirus status, scan, and signature-update information.
- Huntress said existing partners could enable the service from its dashboard, where installed agents would report Defender status and configuration.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Product/service announcement: Huntress introduced Managed Microsoft Defender, formerly Managed Antivirus, as a service on its Security Platform.
- Impact
- The service provides centralized monitoring and management of Microsoft Defender Antivirus configuration across managed endpoints, incident details and remediation visibility, and endpoint health, scan, and signature-update status. The article reports no specific security incident or affected organization.
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Huntress security platformWhen we unveiled the new Huntress Security Platform back in June, our main goal was to streamline defense. We talked about tightening our defender feedback loop and accelerating the ability to apply new defenseManaged Microsoft DefenderTo fit within this goal of streamlining defense, we’re thrilled to introduce our newest service: Managed Microsoft Defender (formerly known as Managed Antivirus).Microsoft Defender AntivirusYup, you heard right—Microsoft Defender Antivirus.Microsoft WindowsThe latest addition to Huntress’ Security Platform, Managed Microsoft Defender enables partners to monitor and manage Microsoft Microsoft Defender that comes pre-bundled with recent versions of Microsoft Windows.