Identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities, and malicious insider actions using Active Directory signals with Microsoft Defender for Identity Use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to strengthen the security posture of your data centers and your hybrid workloads in the cloud NOTE: Most tenants using the security sections of the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center should now be redirected to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal at. Manage Exchange Online Protection and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to protect your email and collaboration services, and ensure compliance to various data-handling regulations. NOTE: Most tenants should now be redirected to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal at. Monitor and respond to threat activity on your endpoints using capabilities provided with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Monitor and respond to threat activity and strengthen security posture across your identities, email, data, endpoints, and apps with Microsoft 365 Defender

Security operators and admins can go to the following portals to manage security-specific settings, investigate possible threat activities, respond to active threats, and collaborate with IT admins to remediate issues. To access various relevant portals from Microsoft 365 Defender portal, select More resources in the navigation pane. That, you can disable via GPO ( You can read more. What you knew before simply as 'Windows Defender'. We currently do not support disabling this UI, but we have heard this feedback and are working on this (though no commitment/timeframe).Ģ. So it's relevant even if you use SEP for AV. Windows Defender Security Center (WDSC) which has an overview of a lot of built-in Windows safety features (AV, Firewall, Device performance).

We know it's a bit complicated, and we are working in the Fall's Creators Update to make it better - but there are actually two things you see:ġ. Windows 10 only allows you to run 1 antivirus in real time protection at a time. The GPO setting you set is supported, but all that does is disable Windows Defender antivirus, which would have already been disabled as you are using Symanten Endpoint Protection. Let's start with - we do NOT support any manual changes to the registry, so those changes are not documented and not supported.

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