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Rob Lefferts
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Threat Protection
Practitioner and chief information security officer collaboration in a security operations center.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now stops human-operated attacks on its own 

Today, we're pleased to announce that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint customers will now be able automatically to disrupt human-operated attacks like ransomware early in the kill chain without needing to deploy any other capabilities. Now, organizations only need to onboard their devices to Defender for Endpoint to start realizing the benefits of attack disruption.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked number one in market share in the IDC Worldwide Corporate Endpoint Security Market Shares report, 2022 

Today, we are proud to share that Microsoft is ranked number one in market share in the IDC Worldwide Corporate Endpoint Security Market Shares report, 2022. More customers choose and trust Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Defender for Business to defend their multiplatform devices than any other vendor.