Microsoft adds useful new features to its Endpoint protection tool for Linux
Linux EDR feature now extend to Azure Defender as well
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Microsofthas announced it is adding a selection of useful security features to its Defender for Endpoint onLinuxoffering.
In addition toantivirus(AV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) abilities, which have been generally available since January 2021,Defender for Endpoint on Linuxgained threat and vulnerability management(TVM) capabilities, earlier this year in June, 2021.
“With recent Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linuxintegration into Azure Security Center, the benefits of our Linux EDR and TVM now extend to Azure Defender customers,”noted Microsoft.
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Azure Defender provides threat protection for workloads running in Microsoft’scloud computingplatform,Azure, and in other clouds.
Extra Linux protection
For starters, the Linux EDR detection has been enhanced with the live response capabilities and is now available for public preview customers.
According to Microsoft, the live response capability enables admins to investigate issues and take corrective actions, in real-time. The feature also helps enhance investigations into incidents by helping collect forensic data, share suspicious entities for further analysis, and proactively hunt for possible threats.
Furthermore, based on the feedback from its customers, Microsoft has fleshed its list of supportedLinux server distroswith the addition ofAmazonLinux 2 and Fedora 33+, and several downstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) variants.
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It’s also making Defender antivirus behavior monitoring generally available on Linux, and plans to use these behavior-based signals as additional runtime signals for their cloud-powered machine learning (ML) models.
“With behavior monitoring, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux protection is expanded to generically intercept whole new classes of threats such asransom[ware], sensitive data collection,crypto mining, and others. Behavior monitoring alerts appear in theMicrosoft 365Defender alongside all other alerts and can be effectively investigated,” Microsoft notes while soliciting feedback from the users.
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With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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