Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
Senior IT Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 11, 2022
It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself.
Information Security Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Apr 26, 2023
Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors.
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 25, 2022
Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency.
Associate Tech Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Aug 9, 2022
It also gives the vulnerability status according to the versions you have selected. Let's say you have Google Chrome. It mentions the versions it has, and it updates. Within two hours of an update, it is reflected in the dashboard. That's really nice to have.
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Mar 13, 2021
There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types.
Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization.
Information Security Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Apr 26, 2023
Microsoft sometimes has downtime, and we'll get several incidents coming in back to back. We have a huge backlog of notifications, many of which may be false positives. However, there might be serious alerts, so we can't risk dismissing all of them at once.
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 25, 2022
One area for improvement is integration. For example, when it comes to external SaaS platforms, we were not able to get a lot of information on integrations with such apps for security and authentication.
Associate Tech Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Aug 9, 2022
In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help.
