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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in Depth - Second Edition: Take any organization's endpoint security to the next level
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781837026111
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 610
Weight: 2.28
Height: 1.23 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Gain an up-to-date, practical understanding of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and learn how to run it reliably in real environments with this expert-led practitioner's guide. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Key Features:
- Understand and compare Defender endpoint security capabilities on all supported operating systems
- Learn how to deal with complex deployment and configuration scenarios
- Find new ways of tuning the product to your specific environment
- Set yourself up for success by preparing for incidents with recommendations from seasoned professionals
Book Description:
Modern organizations run on constantly changing endpoints, yet many teams still struggle to get the most out of Defender endpoint security. Coverage gaps, noisy detections, mixed platforms, and unclear device behavior often get in the way of effective prevention, detection, and response.
This second edition helps you tackle those challenges directly. Updated for today's Defender endpoint security, and the broader Microsoft Defender ecosystem, it shows how MDE works across clients, servers, and now mobile devices, and how to align deployments with real-world constraints. New chapters on mobile threat defense, production rollout, and tuning provide practical guidance for moving beyond pilot environments, handling edge cases, and protecting critical and legacy assets.
Throughout, the book brings together IT and SecOps viewpoints to help you operate Defender for Endpoint with more clarity and less friction. You'll learn how to maintain sensor health, interpret incidents confidently, reduce noise without weakening protection, and troubleshoot recurring issues.
Whether you're refining an existing deployment or planning a new one, this edition gives you a clearer path to making Defender for Endpoint a reliable part of your security program.
What You Will Learn:
- Explore the current Defender for Endpoint architecture and capabilities
- Clarify how next-gen protection, ASR, and EDR work together
- Prepare a deployment plan that fits your estate, risk, and existing tools
- Roll out Defender for Endpoint to production in staged, testable phases
- Protect mobile devices using Defender for Endpoint and MTD
- Tune alerts, exclusions, and policies for different scenarios and assets
- Support SecOps investigations using incidents, hunting, and device data
- Diagnose common health, connectivity, and performance issues in live estates
Who this book is for:
This book is for cybersecurity professionals, security engineers, incident responders, endpoint administrators, and IT pros who are responsible for planning, deploying, or operating Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. It assumes a basic understanding of systems management, endpoint security, security baselines, and networking. Returning readers get updated, real-world guidance plus new coverage of mobile devices, production rollouts, and tuning. New readers get a structured introduction from core concepts to deployment, operations, and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents
- A Brief History of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Exploring Next-Generation Protection
- Introduction to Attack Surface Reduction
- Understanding Endpoint Detection and Response
- Defending Mobile Devices
- Planning and Preparing for Deployment
- Considerations for Deployment and Configuration
- Rolling Out to Production
- Tuning and SItuational Optimizations
- Managing and Maintaining the Security Posture
- Establishing Security Operations
- Troubleshooting Common Issues
- Reference Guide, Tips, and Tricks
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