Rob Lefferts reports on Microsoft Defender’s continued leadership in endpoint security, emphasizing market share growth, cross-platform capabilities, and AI-powered threat disruption.

Microsoft Defender Leads Modern Endpoint Security Market for Third Consecutive Year

Author: Rob Lefferts

Overview

For the third year in a row, Microsoft Defender has been ranked the number one endpoint security solution in the worldwide modern endpoint security market, according to IDC’s 2024 report. Microsoft’s market share rose to 28.6% in 2024, reflecting a 28.2% year-over-year growth amidst a surge in global ransomware activity.

Why Organizations Prefer Microsoft Defender

  • AI-Powered Protection: Defender leverages AI to disrupt cyberattacks and safeguard business continuity across major platforms, including Windows, Linux (with eBPF sensor technology), macOS, Android, iOS, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
  • Cross-Platform Support: Ongoing investments have enhanced Defender’s support for diverse Linux distributions, ARM64 architecture, and low-resource environments, minimizing CPU usage and boosting performance.
  • Advanced Security Capabilities: Features such as next-generation protection, built-in exposure management, attack path analysis, and automatic attack disruption improve proactive defense, detect vulnerabilities, and halt in-progress threats.
  • Security Operations Center Enablement: Defender’s platform offers security operations teams real-time analytics, dynamic risk scoring, attack disruption, live response, and advanced hunting across languages and dialects worldwide.
  • Customer Success Stories: Organizations like Crocs, Victorinox, Del Monte Foods, and Cielo have experienced accelerated security maturity and operational simplicity with Defender’s native integration.

Microsoft Defender Platform Highlights

  • Defense-in-Depth: Built-in self-defense capabilities stop lateral threat movement and contain cyberattacks across various domains, with or without additional Microsoft security deployments.
  • Analytics and Investigation: Provides in-depth telemetry, investigation, and remediation tooling for continuous improvement of security posture.
  • Global Reach: The Defender portal and resources are available in over 100 languages, supporting analysts around the world.

“It was surprisingly simple to enable real-time visibility across our environment. It’s been a leap in our security maturity level, and with the native interoperability of our Microsoft security solutions, we achieved it much faster than we expected.” — Glauco Sampaio, Chief Information Security Officer, Cielo

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