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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft’s business endpoint security technology, now includes threat and vulnerability management functionality for Android and iOS. 

“Threat and vulnerability management features now serve all key device platforms throughout the organization – encompassing workstations, servers, and smartphones,” Microsoft that is known for products like Office 365 added. 

“Threat and vulnerability management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint analyzes and discovers afflicted machines in real-time, analyses related risks in the environment, and provides intelligent prioritization and synchronized workflows to easily repair issues.” 

Android and iOS vulnerability management enable administrators to reduce the external assault area of mobile endpoints and, as a consequence, boost their company’s resistance against future threats. 

The new feature makes things simpler for organizations to find, prioritize, and resolve software and OS issues on Android smartphones (An iOS application vulnerability evaluation is planned for a subsequent version.) 

This news comes one year after Defender for Endpoint’s threat and vulnerability management capability was broadly accessible for macOS devices on February 2, last year. 

This is part of a larger endeavor to broaden the cybersecurity product’s functionality throughout all key platforms in order to assist security teams in defending endpoint users through a single security solution. 

Defender for Endpoint, for particular, will expand coverage for further non-Windows devices in June 2020. (Usually accessible for Linux clients, and in public preview for Android users). a year later, Redmond added macOS support as part of a restricted preview. 

The endpoint security solution was upgraded a month later, in July 2020, with a Microsoft Secure Score for Devices capability to analyze the aggregate security configuration status of machines on business networks. Through recommended steps, it may enhance the safety of a company’s endpoints. 

Beginning in October 2020, the Microsoft enterprise endpoint security platform will also provide administrators with statistics that will assist them in keeping a record of defenseless Windows and macOS machines, such as vulnerability severity levels, exploit availability, vulnerability age, and vulnerable machines by OS. 

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint will support Windows 10 on Arm in April this year, according to Microsoft which is famous for products like Microsoft Teams.