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Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux

posted by chromas on Monday June 29 2020, @03:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-do-you-do,-fellow-kids? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Microsoft releases Defender ATP for Linux:

On June 23, Microsoft released Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for Linux for general use.

But before you get excited while you could use this on a Linux desktop, this version of ATP is not meant for the desktop. It's to protect Linux servers from server and network threats. If you want protection for your standalone desktop, you're better off with a such as ClamAV or Sophos Antivirus for Linux.

For sysadmins and security pros, Microsoft Defender Security Center is now available for monitoring and managing security across the full spectrum of enterprise desktop and server platforms -- Android, Windows, Windows Server, macOS, and Linux.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 29 2020, @05:30PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 29 2020, @05:30PM (#1014173) Journal

    To use Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux, you'll need the Microsoft Defender ATP for Servers license. If you don't have one, you can sign up for a free trial of Microsoft Defender ATP.

    TFA is a can of worms, really. Most links are rejected by my browser, because something is blocked by noscript and/or other security measures.

    The one link that works without permissions problems, lands me on a Microsoft page - where I must sign in. Hell, I don't want to sign in on a Microsoft page!! That's why I run Linux!

    But, the license. It's the "Microsoft Tax" again.

    For a corporation, maybe that's alright. For me, a private home user, I won't pay Microsoft anything. So, I suppose this software is out of reach, even for research purposes. Ho-hum.

    Not that I was really serious about it, of course. I thought I might run it in a VM, to see how resource hungry it was, and how intrusive. I'll never know . . .

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    I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
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