With the increased threats of cyberattack and security breaches, education and IT leaders are under tremendous pressure to keep student and faculty data safe, reduce exposure to risks, detect cyberattacks, and respond to cyberthreats. Read about the latest cybersecurity guidance, and tips for keeping your school digitally secure on the Microsoft Education blog.

Microsoft offers a unified portfolio of solutions to streamline management and simplify security of the IT environment with industry-aligned safety measures, essential for schools that operate with limited IT staff and finite budgets. Based on Zero Trust principles, these solutions make it easy for IT departments to secure their entire computing infrastructure. Microsoft 365 A5 provides industry-leading cybersecurity, management, and compliance tools built for teaching and learning. This includes tools such as Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Intune for Education, which streamline endpoint management and help secure user identities, devices, cloud resources, and data.

Microsoft 365 Defender is an industry-leading extended detection and response (XDR) platform. The Microsoft Defender family offers comprehensive threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities to better protect your organization from ransomware, malware, phishing, and other cyberthreats.

Microsoft 365 Defender provides a unified XDR experience for the following products: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Discover and secure endpoint devices across your enterprise.
• Microsoft Defender for Identity: Protect your on-premises identities with cloud-powered intelligence.
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Help secure your email and Microsoft Teams with advanced protection against phishing, business email compromise, ransomware, and other cyberthreats.
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Modernize how you secure your apps, protect your data, and elevate your app posture with software as a service security.

Visit Microsoft Learn to get more information about Microsoft 365 Defender.

Microsoft Intune for Education is a cloud-based endpoint management solution. It manages user access and simplifies app and device management across your many devices, including mobile devices, desktop computers, and virtual endpoints. You can protect access and data on organization-owned and personal devices. And Intune has compliance and reporting features that support the Zero Trust cybersecurity model.

Visit Microsoft Learn to get more information about Microsoft Intune for Education.

Microsoft Purview is a family of data governance, risk, and compliance solutions that can help your organization govern, protect, and manage your entire data estate. Microsoft Purview solutions provide integrated coverage and help address recent increases in remote user connectivity, fragmentation of data across organizations, and blurring of traditional IT management roles.
Visit Microsoft Learn to get more information about Microsoft Purview.

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