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Which Microsoft Defender is which

Which Microsoft Defender is which: Endpoint, Office 365, Identity, Cloud Apps, Business, XDR, Cloud, Antivirus — what each does and which licence gets it.

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What is the difference between Defender for Cloud and Defender for Cloud Apps?

Different products entirely. Defender for Cloud Apps is the CASB for SaaS — shadow-IT discovery, session controls, OAuth governance — licensed through Microsoft 365. Defender for Cloud is an Azure product (formerly Azur…

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Is Defender XDR a product I can buy?

No. Defender XDR is the correlation layer you get by licensing the underlying workload products — Endpoint, Office 365, Identity, Cloud Apps. It joins their alerts into single incidents and runs attack disruption and ad…

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Does Microsoft 365 E3 include Defender?

Only the free baseline: Exchange Online Protection and the built-in Defender Antivirus. E3 includes none of the four workload Defenders — no EDR, no Safe Links, no identity or SaaS threat detection. Full Defender covera…

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Is Defender for Business the same as Defender for Endpoint?

Essentially yes — Defender for Business is Defender for Endpoint repackaged for organisations under 300 users, with simplified onboarding and a lower price, and it is bundled into Microsoft 365 Business Premium. It is n…

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