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Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence

Help protect your organization from modern adversaries and threats such as ransomware.

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Uncover your adversaries

Expose and eliminate modern threats and their infrastructure using dynamic cyberthreat intelligence.

Identify attackers and their tools

Understand your adversaries and their online infrastructures to identify your potential threat exposures using a complete map of the internet.

Accelerate threat detection and remediation

Discover the full scope of an attack. Understand an online adversary’s entire toolkit, prevent access by all their machines and known entities, and continuously block IP addresses or domains.

Enhance your security tools and workflows

Extend the reach and visibility of your existing security investments. Use the raw cyberthreat intelligence from your security tools and workflows, via an API, to gain more context and understand threats more deeply.

Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence

Gain an unparalleled view of the ever-changing threat landscape. Defender Threat Intelligence maps the entire internet to expose threat actors and their infrastructures. Get the cyberthreat intelligence you need to block an entire attack and keep your organization safe from complex threats such as ransomware.

Capabilities

Uncover and help eliminate threats with Defender Threat Intelligence.

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Get continuous threat intelligence

Scan the internet to create a complete picture of day-to-day changes. Create threat intelligence for your own business to understand and reduce exposure.

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Expose adversaries and their methods

Understand the group behind an online attack, their methods, and how they typically operate.

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Enhance alert investigations

Enrich Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Defender incident data with external threat intelligence to uncover the full scale of a threat or attack.

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Accelerate incident response

Investigate and remove malicious infrastructure such as domains and IPs and all the known tools and resources operated by an attacker or threat family.

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Hunt threats as a team

Easily collaborate on investigations across teams using the Defender Threat Intelligence workbench and share knowledge of threats with Intel Profiles.

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Expand prevention and improve security posture

Automatically uncover malicious entities and help stop outside threats by blocking internal resources from accessing dangerous internet resources.

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Join the Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence Community

Register for free to help protect your organization while contributing to community defense.

How Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence works

Microsoft tracks more than 65 trillion signals daily, helping security teams identify vulnerabilities with greater efficacy and stay ahead of today's threats.

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Integrated threat protection with SIEM and XDR

Empower your defenders to effectively secure your digital estate by combining extended detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM).

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Microsoft 365 Defender

Get unified security and visibility across endpoints, identities, emails, and cloud apps with an industry-leading XDR solution.

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Related products

Use best-in-class Microsoft security products to help prevent and detect attacks across your organization.

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Microsoft Sentinel

See and stop threats across your entire enterprise with intelligent security analytics.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Increase protection in your multicloud and hybrid environments.

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Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management

Understand your security posture beyond the firewall.

Additional resources

Announcement

Read the threat intelligence blog

Learn about the new threat intelligence offerings from Microsoft.

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Help protect your business with threat intelligence

Learn how to use internet threat intelligence to defend your organization against attacks.

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Best practices and implementation

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Learn from Defender Threat Intelligence experts, see what's new, and let us hear from you.

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