Microsoft has just announced the general availability (GA) of its Microsoft Defender for IoT solutions.
It provides cloud-powered IoT and OT security tools for asset discovery, vulnerability management, and threat protection for IoT and industrial infrastructure. The solution is now GA for enterprise customers.
Microsoft Defender for IoT purports to provide context-aware visibility, risk-based security posture management, threat detection with behavior analytics, and unified security that leverages security tools like Sentinel, Splunk, IBM, ServiceNow, and QRadar.
- The solution's IoT capabilities and threat intelligence support customers' security needs in both private and public sectors.
- According to the company website, Microsoft Defender for IoT equips enterprise IoT devices with agentless monitoring to deliver comprehensive security.
- The new offering also includes a dedicated integration with Microsoft 365 Defender, which allows customers to extend their detection and response coverage to IoT devices.
