Microsoft has announced the general availability of Threat & Vulnerability Management solution. The tech giant says the solution was made available on June 30 and provides real-time vulnerability management to the organizations.
The new solution is a built-in capability in Microsoft Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection). The Microsoft Defender ATP uses a risk-based approach to discover, prioritize, and mitigate endpoint vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
While designing the solution, Microsoft worked with a dozen of enterprise customers including Telit, a global leader in IoT enablement, to understand the limitations and complications of the existing processes.
During the process, Microsoft found that the current approaches being used to scan vulnerabilities are slow and periodical. This could lead to security blind spots between scans, flooding the organizations with vulnerabilities. Further, manual mitigation of vulnerabilities sometimes takes days, weeks, or months to complete. Hence, attackers have a window to attack the enterprises.
Threat & Vulnerability Management solution is aimed to address these issues.
“Our goal is to empower defenders with the tools they need to better protect against evolving threats, and we believe this solution will help provide that additional visibility and agility they need,” wrote Rob Lefferts, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Security, in a blog post.
The new offering will provide several benefits to customers, like enabling continuous discovery of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and business-context based prioritization and dynamic threat landscape. It will provide correlation of vulnerabilities with endpoint detection and response (EDR) alerts to expose breach insights.
Customers will also get machine-level vulnerability context during incident investigations, built-in remediation processes through integration with Microsoft Intune and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager.
The new TVM solution is now generally available. Existing customers can find it in Microsoft Defender ATP portal. New customers can take a free trail here.
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