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Microsoft Defender

Prevent and disrupt threats with AI-powered, coordinated defense.
Overview

Your security shouldn’t be a replay

Detection isn’t enough. Microsoft Defender coordinates protection across endpoints, identity, email, apps, and cloud—preventing, disrupting, and continuously improving defense.
  • Integrate protection across your digital estate with a living security fabric—connecting signals, coordinating response across domains, and continuously strengthening as threats evolve.
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  • Stop high-confidence threats at the control layer—automatically containing breaches, preventing lateral movement, and reducing impact in real time, without relying on brittle playbooks or waiting for human approval.
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  • Scale decisions with agents embedded in your workflows—bringing cross-domain context to every signal, continuously triaging, prioritizing, and driving response so teams move from backlog to action in real time.
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PRODUCTS

Explore Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Defender offers comprehensive threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities.

Endpoint Security

Gain comprehensive protection across all devices and platforms for unmatched, cross-domain visibility across your organization.

Identity Security

Prevent, detect, and respond to advanced identity threats across your identity fabric.

Email & Collaboration Security

Safeguard your email and collaboration tools from phishing, and disrupt advanced cyberthreats, such as business email compromise.

SaaS Security

Modernize how you secure apps and generative AI systems, elevate your security posture, and defend against software as service (SaaS)-based cyberattacks.

Cloud Security

Start protecting your hybrid and multicloud environments with unified security across the full application lifecycle, from code to runtime.

Vulnerability Management

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

The Total Economic Impact™ of deploying Microsoft Defender

See how unifying your SecOps with Microsoft Defender helps reduce costs and response effort.

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242%
Return on investment (ROI)
60%
Reduction in multicloud cybersecurity spend
80%
Reduction in incident response effort
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Plans and pricing

Discover pricing for Microsoft Defender

Learn about the plans and standalone options for purchasing Microsoft Defender products.
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader

  • A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for XDR


    Microsoft has been named as a leader in the IDC Worldwide Extended Detection and Response Software 2025 Vendor Assessment.2
  • A Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms


    Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms.