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Microsoft Defender Experts MDR

Stop attackers with always-on, expert-led managed detection and response (MDR), powered by agentic AI and natively integrated with Microsoft Defender.
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Overview

Around the clock, expert-led defense

Stop attacks and prevent future compromise across your environment with MDR and proactive threat hunting from Defender Experts MDR.
  • Rely on our experts to triage and investigate prioritized incidents to focus on threats that require immediate attention.
  • Contain and mitigate incidents fast with managed response and proactive remediation.
  • Extend your team’s capacity with around-the-clock assistance from security experts via live chat.
  • Reduce risk over time with detailed recommendations to improve your overall security posture.
CAPABILITIES

Explore the features of Defender Experts MDR

Built-in defense

Get natively integrated MDR that protects your entire attack surface across Microsoft and third-party endpoints, identities, email, cloud apps, cloud workloads, and network infrastructure.

Human expertise

Rely on human security experts with combined experience of 600+ years to deliver continuous coverage.

AI and agentic AI

Gain fast, efficient response with service powered by automation, AI, and agentic AI

Proactive threat hunting

Uncover novel threats before they escalate, using around-the-clock, AI-powered proactive threat hunting.

Extensive threat intelligence

Stay ahead of evolving risks via 100+ trillion daily signals analyzed by more than 10,000 security experts.

Access to experts

Consult service delivery engineers and experts for ongoing insights on the latest in the threat landscape.

Turning threat intelligence into decisive action 

Discover how new Defender Experts services and capabilities help close the intelligence-to-action gap before threats reach your organization and as they unfold across your environment.

Bolster your SOC with Defender Experts MDR

Get alert triage, incident analysis, and managed response, plus proactive recommendations around the clock—all with Defender Experts MDR.
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Defend against evolving threats

See how Defender Experts stopped a ClickFix attack through early detection, threat intel, and expert-led response.
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

Microsoft is a recognized industry leader

  • A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for MDR/MXDR


    Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide MDR/MXDR for the Enterprise Vendor Assessment.1

Frequently asked questions

  • Microsoft Defender Experts Hunting provides proactive threat hunting service to find emerging threats. This service is meant for customers who have a robust security operations center (SOC) and want that deep expertise in hunting to expose advanced threats. Microsoft Defender Experts MDR provides end-to-end security operations capabilities to monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts. This service is meant for customers with constrained SOCs that are overburdened with alert volume, in need of skilled experts, or both. Defender Experts MDR also includes the proactive threat hunting offered by Defender Experts Hunting.
  • Defender Experts MDR Plan 1 provides managed detection and response for your Microsoft Defender workloads. Defender Experts MDR Plan 2 includes everything in Plan 1 and extends expert-led triage and investigation to supported third-party sources that you ingest through Microsoft Sentinel. Learn more about the plans.
  • Defender Experts MDR provides managed detection and response across Microsoft-native signals and third-party data ingested through Microsoft Sentinel, helping protect endpoints, identities, email, cloud apps, cloud workloads, and network infrastructure across your environment. Refer to documentation for more details.
  • Microsoft expert analysts can take actions based on the roles granted to them in Microsoft Defender. These analysts can investigate and provide managed response for your SOC team to act on. They can also take specific remediation actions agreed upon with your SOC team. For supported third-party data sources, our analysts provide response recommendations and guidance, but do not take actions directly within third-party products.
  • Defender Experts MDR covers incidents categorized as High or Medium severity in Windows, Linux, and macOS devices. Incidents categorized as Compliance, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), or Custom Detections and those affecting internet of things (IoT), iOS, or Android devices are outside the service's scope.
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  1. [1]
    2026 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide MDR/MXDR for the Enterprise Vendor Assessment (Doc #US54792426, July 2026). 

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