Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS brings zero-touch onboarding to public preview
Security just got a little easier to enforce.
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What you need to know
Microsoft’s just released a dollop of news that likely won’t mean much to the average iOS user but will mean something to enterprises using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS. Now devices can be zero-touch onboarded to Defender for Endpoint, meaning end-users won’t have to do a thing in order for their respective enterprise to deploy in a timely fashion. This feature is in public preview.
So long as a device is enrolled with Microsoft Endpoint Manager, the end-user won’t need to interact. For those wondering what Defender for Endpoint is and why this news is a big (relatively speaking) deal, here’s Microsoft’s blog post’s description:
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint delivers a rich set of capabilities, including anti-phishing, blocking unsafe connections, custom Indicators, jailbreak detection, and vulnerability assessment of iOS. In addition, it offers a unified security experience through the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, where security teams can get a centralized view of alerts, incidents, and gain additional context to remediate threats across all endpoints.
You can find additional documentation atMicrosoft’s blog postwherein the public preview announcement was made.
As for other news in the world of Microsoft products, be sure to check for theupdated Photos appif you’re onWindows 11, and read up on the hardships ofmaking a Skype accountthanks to a recent influx of Captchas haunting what used to be a very simple service signup process.
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