OVERVIEW
Elevate your security
Go beyond traditional antivirus with enterprise-grade protection and vulnerability management for your Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android™ devices.
- Save money by consolidating multiple products into one unified security solution that’s optimized for your business.
- Quickly improve your security with easy-to-use management controls, actionable insights, and out-of-the-box policies that streamline onboarding.
- Automatically detect and respond to cyberthreats with AI-powered endpoint protection for all your devices—whether working in the office or remotely.
Capabilities
Secure your hybrid workplace
Get enterprise-grade device security with AI-powered capabilities.
Discover, prioritize, and remediate software vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that pose the most urgent and highest risk to your business.
Minimize the areas across devices that are open to attacks and reinforce security with enhanced antimalware and antivirus protection.
Automatically detect and disrupt sophisticated threats in real time and remove them from your environment.
Quickly get back up and running after a cyberattack with automated investigation and remediation capabilities that examine and respond to alerts.
PLANS AND PRICING
Flexible pricing options
Choose the right suite for your business, or add on individually to any plan.
- Up to 300 users and up to five devices per user, with no minimum device requirement
- Enterprise-grade device protection for Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android™ devices
- Wizard-based onboarding and simplified management experience
- Vulnerability management to identify weaknesses and strengthen security
- Next-generation antivirus protection to block new and emerging threats
- AI-powered endpoint detection and response with automatic attack disruption to disrupt in-progress ransomware attacks in real-time
- Automated investigation and remediation to automatically resolve most cyberthreats
- Monthly security summary reports to track your protection
- Server protection available as an add-on
Included:
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Microsoft Defender: Get threat prevention and detection with Microsoft Defender security capabilities.
Includes Defender for Business, plus:
- Microsoft 365 Copilot available as an add-on7
- Email protection from phishing attacks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P1
- The ability to secure work data on personal and company-owned devices with Microsoft Intune Plan 1
- The ability to secure identities and access to work apps with Microsoft Entra ID Plan 1
- Protection against lost or stolen passwords with advanced multifactor authentication
- Data protection with Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention
- Archiving, e-discovery, and legal hold
- Web, mobile, and desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Chat, call, and meet with teams using a laptop, tablet, or phone
- 1 TB of cloud storage per user
Desktop, web, and mobile apps and services included:
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Word: Create impressive documents and improve your writing with built-in intelligent features.
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Excel: Simplify complex data and create easy-to-read spreadsheets.
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PowerPoint: Easily create polished presentations that stand out.
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Outlook: Manage your email, calendar, tasks, and contacts together in one place.
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Microsoft Teams: Bring everyone together in one place to meet, chat, call, and collaborate.
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OneDrive: Save, access, edit, and share files and photos wherever you are.
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SharePoint: Create team sites to share information, files, and resources.
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Exchange: Work smarter with business-class email and calendaring.
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Microsoft Access (PC only): Create and share business apps without being a developer.
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Intune: Protect your business and application data and access on devices.
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Microsoft Purview: Make governing, protecting, and managing your data easy and efficient.
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Microsoft Entra ID: Protect employee identities and credentials.
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Microsoft Defender: Get threat prevention and detection with Microsoft Defender security capabilities.
Includes Defender for Business, plus:
- Microsoft 365 Copilot available as an add-on7
- Email protection from phishing attacks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P1
- The ability to secure work data on personal and company-owned devices with Microsoft Intune Plan 1
- The ability to secure identities and access to work apps with Microsoft Entra ID Plan 1
- Protection against lost or stolen passwords with advanced multifactor authentication
- Data protection with Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention
- Archiving, e-discovery, and legal hold
- Web, mobile, and desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- 1 TB of cloud storage per user
Desktop, web, and mobile apps and services included:
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Word: Create impressive documents and improve your writing with built-in intelligent features.
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Excel: Simplify complex data and create easy-to-read spreadsheets.
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PowerPoint: Easily create polished presentations that stand out.
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Outlook: Manage your email, calendar, tasks, and contacts together in one place.
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OneDrive: Save, access, edit, and share files and photos wherever you are.
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SharePoint: Create team sites to share information, files, and resources.
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Exchange: Work smarter with business-class email and calendaring.
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Microsoft Access (PC only): Create and share business apps without being a developer.
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Intune: Protect your business and application data and access on devices.
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Microsoft Purview: Make governing, protecting, and managing your data easy and efficient.
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Microsoft Entra ID: Protect employee identities and credentials.
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Microsoft Defender: Get threat prevention and detection with Microsoft Defender security capabilities.
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Industry research and recognition
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is the foundation of Defender for Business, which features many of the same capabilities.
Customer Stories
Customer success stories
RESOURCES
Additional resources
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Defender for Business is an AI-powered, enterprise-grade device security solution that helps businesses with up to 300 employees protect against ransomware and other cyberthreats in an easy-to-use and cost-effective package.
- Defender for Business servers is an add-on to Defender for Business or Microsoft 365 Business Premium. The add-on provides security for servers with Defender for Business, helping you protect all your endpoints using a single admin experience. Offering simplified onboarding and management, it includes security policies activated out of the box to help you quickly secure servers. Defender for Business servers also identifies threats and vulnerabilities, so you can patch and protect your environment from ransomware, malware, and other threats.
- IT service providers can use Microsoft 365 Lighthouse to view insights from Defender for Business across multiple customers in a single location. This includes multi-tenant list views of incidents and alerts across tenants and notifications via email. Default baselines can be used to scale customer tenant onboarding, and vulnerability management capabilities help IT service providers see trends in secure score, exposure score, and recommendations to improve tenants.
- Securing devices is critical to safeguarding your organization from malicious actors attempting to disrupt your business with cyberattacks. Device security helps to protect, detect, and respond to these cyberthreats for desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.
- Microsoft Defender Antivirus provides next-generation protection built into Windows devices, helping protect them from viruses, malware, and potentially unwanted applications. Defender for Business includes Defender Antivirus capabilities and extends protection to encompass cyberthreat and vulnerability management, attack surface reduction, endpoint detection and response, and automated investigation and response.
- Microsoft Defender for Business is designed for small and medium-sized businesses with up to 300 users. It provides AI-powered, enterprise-grade cyberthreat protection that includes endpoint detection and response with automatic attack disruption, automated investigation and remediation, and other capabilities. Cross-platform support provides protection for Windows, MacOS, Android™, and iOS devices.
Microsoft Defender for individuals and families helps people stay safer online. It provides antivirus protection, antiphishing protection, identity theft monitoring, credit monitoring8, and privacy protection9. It also offers identity theft insurance up to USD1 million to cover restoration costs and restoration support that’s available anytime, day or night.10
Microsoft Defender for Business is a comprehensive security solution for businesses, while Microsoft Defender for individuals and families is an all-in-one online protection app for the home.
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- [1]IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Small Businesses Vendor Assessment 2024, Document # US50521424, March 2024.
- [2]IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses Vendor Assessment 2024, Document # US50521323, February 2024.
- [3]IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises Vendor Assessment 2024, Document # US50521223, January 2024.
- [4]App is available on Windows, macOS, Android™, and iOS in select Microsoft 365 Family or Personal billing regions.
- [5]Once your paid subscription begins, you have a 7-day cancellation window to receive a prorated refund, only paying for what you use. You may cancel your subscription at any time in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Learn how to cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription. When a subscription is canceled, all associated data will be deleted. Learn more about data retention, deletion, and destruction in Microsoft 365.
- [6]After your one-month free trial ends, your subscription will automatically convert to a paid subscription and you’ll be charged the applicable subscription fee based on the subscription term and billing plan you select. Cancel anytime during your free trial to stop future charges. A credit card is required to sign up. Storage for trials will be limited. Microsoft reserves the right to suspend access to its products and services if payment is not received after your one-month free trial ends. Learn more.
- [7]Microsoft 365 Copilot may not be available for all markets and languages. To purchase, customers must have a qualifying plan for enterprise or business.
- [8]Feature is available in the United States and US territories. Credit score is a single bureau VantageScore 3.0 provided by Experian®. The monthly credit report is provided by Experian® using single-bureau data. For users under the age of 18 or those without a credit history, credit score is not included. Family organizers will not have the ability to onboard, view, and receive alerts related to family member credit monitoring. Your device's primary display language must be set to English.
- [9]Privacy protection (VPN) is available on Android devices in the United States and US territories. Privacy protection is coming soon to Windows. Some streaming services are excluded. After 10 GB per month, data transfer speeds may be limited.
- [10]The identity theft insurance is underwritten and administered by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, an Assurant company. Refer to the actual policies for terms, conditions, and exclusions of coverage. Coverage may not be available in all jurisdictions. Review the summary of benefits.
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