The 2-Minute Recap: Everything new with Security, Compliance, and Identity on Microsoft Learn

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Welcome to our monthly blog series featuring the latest Security, Compliance, and Identity content updates on Microsoft Learn! This month’s highlights include the general availability of Microsoft Defender for Business—designed especially for businesses with up to 300 employees—Microsoft Defender for Endpoint learning paths, and the upcoming RSA Conference in June.

Microsoft Defender for Business

Optimized to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Microsoft Defender for Business is now generally available. With enterprise-grade endpoint security that’s cost-effective and easy to use, Microsoft Defender for Business is designed to help SMBs better protect themselves against ransomware and other sophisticated cyberthreats.

Some of the features that complement Microsoft Defender for Business include:

Threat and vulnerability management

  • This helps prioritize and focus on weaknesses that pose the most urgent and highest risk to business. Proactively build a secure foundation for your environment by discovering, prioritizing, and remediating software vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

Attack surface reduction

  • This option helps minimize attack surface (places where your company is vulnerable to cyberattacks across your devices and applications), leaving bad actors with fewer ways to execute attacks.

Next-generation protection

  • This helps prevent and protect against threats with antimalware and antivirus protection on devices and in the cloud.

Auto-investigation and remediation

  • This helps scale security operations by examining alerts and taking immediate action to resolve attacks for customers. By reducing alert volume and remediating threats, Microsoft Defender for Business enables customers to prioritize tasks and focus on more sophisticated threats.

Endpoint detection and response

  • This provides behavioral-based detection and response alerts so that you can identify persistent threats and remove them from your environment.

Secure your organization with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

With the general availability of Microsoft Defender for Business, be sure to check out our Secure your organization with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint learning path to equip yourself with the skills you need to make the most of this cybersecurity solution.

This learning path includes nine modules that cover how to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to threats across your organization’s endpoints, devices, and systems.

Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Whether you’re using Microsoft Defender for Business or preparing for Exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst, this learning path is for you. Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint covers how to implement the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint platform to detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats.

RSA Conference

Mark your calendars for RSA Conference, taking place in San Francisco from June 6-9, 2022. RSA Conference is where the cybersecurity world comes together. Register now to gain insights, join conversations, and experience solutions that can help accelerate your organization and your career.

Let us know how the content we’ve highlighted—or RSA Conference—is facilitating your journey to certification!

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