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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

Reduce cybersecurity threats with a risk-based approach to vulnerability management.
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OVERVIEW

Risk-based vulnerability management

Reduce risk with continuous vulnerability assessment, risk-based prioritization, and remediation.
  • Eliminate periodic scans with continuous monitoring and alerts. Detect risks even when endpoints are not connected to the corporate network.
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  • Prioritize the biggest vulnerabilities on your most critical assets using Microsoft threat intelligence, breach likelihood predictions, and business contexts.
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  • Bridge the gap between security and IT teams to seamlessly remediate vulnerabilities with robust contextual recommendations, built-in workflows, and application block capabilities to enable protection faster.
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  • Use agent-based or agentless scans across cloud workloads, servers, containers, and endpoints with support for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android.
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How it works

Get ahead of cyberthreats

Continuously discover, prioritize, and remediate the biggest risks to organizations across endpoints and cloud workloads.
Capabilities

Key capabilities

Proactively reduce risk to your organization with Defender Vulnerability Management.
Detect risks across managed and unmanaged endpoints with built-in modules and agentless scanners, even when devices aren’t connected to the corporate network.
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Plans and pricing

Explore featured plan

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Add-on

$2.00
user/month

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Reduce risk with continuous vulnerability assessment, risk-based prioritization, and remediation.

Features:
  • Security baselines assessment
  • Block vulnerable applications
  • Browser extensions assessment
  • Digital certificate assessment
  • Network share analysis
  • Hardware and firmware assessment
  • Authenticated scan for Windows
Resources

Documentation and latest updates

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Make your future more secure. Explore your security options today.
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    After your one-month free trial ends, your subscription will automatically convert into a 12-month paid subscription and you will be charged the applicable subscription fee. Cancel any time during your free trial to stop future charges. A credit card is required to sign up. Learn more.​
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    Requires Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P2 or any suite or plan that includes Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P2 (including Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 E5 Security, Windows 10/11 Enterprise E5). Get more information about terms and conditions at Product terms.​

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