Microsoft has revealed it enterprise endpoint safety antivirus providing additionally now gives risk and vulnerability administration for Android and iOS.
The transfer implies that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now works with all main platforms for workstations, servers, in addition to cellular units, defending them from safety flaws, malware (opens in new tab), or ransomware.
“Risk and vulnerability administration in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint constantly displays and identifies impacted units, assesses related dangers within the setting, and gives clever prioritization and built-in workflows to seamlessly remediate vulnerabilities. Microsoft iterates on these options primarily based on the most recent data from the risk panorama,” the corporate stated in its announcement (opens in new tab).
Supporting BYOD
This implies companies can entry new vulnerability evaluation capabilities, equivalent to vulnerability evaluation of Android OS variations of onboarded Android units, or vulnerability evaluation of apps which can be put in on onboarded Android units.
Relating to private cellular units on Android Enterprise with a piece profile, solely the apps put in on the work profile shall be supported. For different BYOD modes, by default vulnerability evaluation of apps is not going to be out there.
It is a function admins can explicitly allow by Microsoft Endpoint Supervisor, in the event that they so want.
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Relating to iOS, admins can count on vulnerability evaluation of iOS variations on onboarded iOS/iPadOS units. Relating to vulnerability evaluation of apps on iOS units, Microsoft says it’s not part of this launch and that this function shall be added “at a later date.”
Microsoft first began increasing supported platforms for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint final yr, when it added macOS precisely a yr in the past. Final summer season, Linux was added, whereas Android was printed as a public preview.
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