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Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow

posted by martyb on Saturday February 22 2020, @08:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the ATP-app-aptly-allays-APTs dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for CoolHand:

Microsoft Defender ATP preview arrives for Linux distros -- iOS and Android versions to follow:

Microsoft has released a public preview of its Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for various Linux distributions.

The company says that the tool will also be coming to iOS and Android later this year, and more details of these mobile editions are due to be revealed at next week's RSA Conference. The spread to additional platform comes after Microsoft rebranded Windows Defender as Microsoft Defender last year.

[...]On the Linux server front, RHEL 7+, CentOS Linux 7+, Ubuntu 16 LTS, or higher LTS, SLES 12+, Debian 9+ and Oracle EL 7 are supported by the preview, reported Bleeping Computer.

In a blog post about the release, Microsoft writes: "We're announcing another step in our journey to offer security from Microsoft with the public preview of Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux. Extending endpoint threat protection to Linux has been a long-time ask from our customers and we're excited to be able to deliver on that".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @12:50PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @12:50PM (#961007)

    It didn't slow the system down at all, except for the occasional time Clippy popped up to ask if I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 ([]yes/[]later/[]OK).

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday February 22 2020, @02:25PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday February 22 2020, @02:25PM (#961026) Journal

    Let me guess: you clicked Later and it went ahead and did it anyway?

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday February 22 2020, @03:07PM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday February 22 2020, @03:07PM (#961033) Journal

    >upgrade

    For some values of "up"...

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