{"id":86650,"date":"2018-11-15T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoftsecure\/?p=86650"},"modified":"2023-05-26T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:41:18","slug":"whats-new-in-windows-defender-atp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2018\/11\/15\/whats-new-in-windows-defender-atp\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s new in Windows Defender ATP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Across Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP<\/a>) engineering and research teams, innovation drives our mission to protect devices in the modern workplace. Our goal is to equip security teams with the tools and insights to protect, detect, investigate, and automatically respond to attacks. \u00a0We continue to be inspired by feedback from customers and partners, who share with us the day-to-day realities of security operations teams constantly keeping up with the onslaught of threats.<\/p>\n

Today I\u2019m excited to share with you some of the latest significant enhancements to Windows Defender ATP. We added new capabilities to each of the pillars of Windows Defender ATP\u2019s unified endpoint protection platform: improved attack surface reduction, better-than-ever next-gen protection, more powerful post-breach detection and response, enhanced automation capabilities, more security insights, and expanded threat hunting. These enhancements boost Windows Defender ATP and accrue to the broader Microsoft Threat Protection<\/a>, an integrated solution for securing identities, endpoints, cloud apps, and infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look now at some of the new enhancements to Windows Defender ATP:<\/p>\n

\"WindowsNew attack surface reduction rules<\/h2>\n

Attack surface reduction<\/a> forms the backbone of our answer to a host intrusion and prevention system (HIPS). Attack surface reduction protects devices directly, by controlling and limiting the ways in which threats can operate on a device. Today we are announcing two new rules:<\/p>\n