Microsoft Defender for IoT
Get real-time asset discovery, vulnerability management, and cyberthreat protection for your Internet of Things (IoT) and industrial infrastructure, such as industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT).
Secure your enterprise IoT devices
Protect up to five enterprise IoT devices per user with Defender for IoT, now included with Microsoft 365 E5 and E5 Security plans.
Complete IoT and ICS/OT security
Accelerate digital transformation with comprehensive IoT and ICS/OT security.
Context-aware visibility
See everything in your environment with complete visibility into all IoT and OT assets and rich context about each device, such as communication, protocols, and behaviors.
Risk-based security posture management
Manage security posture and reduce your cyberattack surface area with a risk-prioritized approach.
Cyberthreat detection with behavioral analytics
Accelerate your incident response with a unified view of the entire cyberattack, including those beginning on the IT network and traversing into sensitive business-critical networks and OT environments.
Defender for IoT protects both enterprise IoT (eIoT) and OT devices
Enterprise IoT (eIoT)
eIoT includes printers, scanners, cameras, Smart TVs, VoIP phones, and other purpose-built devices used to streamline enterprise processes.
Operational technology (OT)
OT includes supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed control system (DCS) devices, programmable logic controls (PLCs), remote terminal units (RTUs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), smart meters, and other systems that uphold critical infrastructure and system processes.
Secure IoT and OT devices in every industry
Defender for IoT capabilities and cyberthreat intelligence meet the unique IoT security needs of organizations in every major industry.
Address unique industry challenges
Tailor IoT security to your needs with comprehensive solutions.
Protect healthcare data and facilities
Secure medical devices used for supply chain management, hospital environmental control, telehealth, and other needs.
Securely enable manufacturing innovation
Protect industrial IoT infrastructure from breaches, maximize uptime, and improve safety by quickly discovering asset inventory and responding to cyberthreats.
Safeguard energy infrastructure
Improve cyber resiliency and defend against cyberattacks with comprehensive security for control systems across energy production and distribution.
Capabilities
Asset discovery and context
Use a combination of passive and active agentless network monitoring to get a complete asset inventory and context such as protocols, communications, and backplane layouts.
Risk-based vulnerability management
Improve your security posture, minimize the cyberattack surface, and eliminate vulnerabilities using a risk-prioritized approach that identifies and visualizes the most likely paths of cyberattack.
Cyberthreat detection with IoT and OT behavioral analytics
Identify cyberattacks using IoT-aware and OT-aware cyberthreat intelligence, behavioral analytics, and machine learning that takes advantage of full-fidelity packet captures.
Defending OT environments
Learn how industrial organizations can secure OT environments with Defender for IoT and Defender XDR.
Complete protection for all your endpoints
Use Defender for IoT and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint together to help secure all your endpoints.
Unified security operations platform
Secure your digital estate with the only security operations (SecOps) platform that unifies the full capabilities of extended detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM).
Unified portal
Detect and disrupt cyberthreats in near-real time and streamline investigation and response.
Defender XDR
Achieve unified security and visibility across your clouds, platforms, and endpoints.
Microsoft Sentinel
Aggregate security data and correlate alerts from virtually any source with cloud-native SIEM.
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Defender for IoT plans
Protection for eIoT and OT are priced separately. Explore your licensing options.
- Microsoft 365 E5 and E5 Security: Defender for IoT for eIoT devices is included with these subscriptions. For each user license, customers can protect up to five devices.
- Defender for IoT—eIoT add-on: Add-on for Defender for Endpoint P2 that expands protection to enterprise IoT devices. Protection is licensed per device.
- Defender for IoT—OT site-based licensing: Standalone licensing to protect your OT devices and critical infrastructure. Pricing differs depending on the size of your environment (site).
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Additional resources
Realize the importance of IoT security
With IoT expected to outpace IT devices soon, chief information security officers (CISOs) need to be prepared to minimize risk across their organization’s expanding cyberattack surface.
Harden OT borders amid IT/OT convergence
The growth of devices across all industries, from automotive to waste management, has made organizations more vulnerable. See what it means for a CISO.
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Get technical details about capabilities, minimum requirements, and deployment guidance.
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- [1] MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations, Triton ICS Evaluation 2021, © 2021 The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation.
- [2] CyberX Wins Coveted Trust Award at SC Awards 2020, Continuing to Receive Industry Recognition, Businesswire, March 11, 2020.
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