Sunday, July 27, 2025

yeah, we use Defender

 

Absolutely horrible.

How many times did I hear: "yeah, we use Defender". Brother, which one?

Did you mean:
🛡️ Defender for Endpoint
🛡️ Defender for Office 365
🛡️ Defender for Identity
🛡️ Defender for Cloud Apps
🛡️ Defender for Cloud (completely different from Cloud Apps, obviously)
🛡️ Defender for IoT
🛡️ Defender Threat Intelligence
🛡️ Defender XDR

Or any of the flavors of Defender for Cloud, like:
🛡️ Defender for Servers
🛡️ Defender for Databases (with further subcategories)
🛡️ Defender for Containers
🛡️ Defender for App Service
🛡️ Defender for Storage
🛡️ Defender for API Management
🛡️ Defender for DNS
🛡️ Defender for KeyVault
🛡️ Defender for Resource Manager
🛡️ Defender for AI services
🛡️ Defender CSPM

But wait, there's more:
🛡️ Defender SmartScreen
🛡️ Defender AV
🛡️ Defender for Business (don’t worry, that one’s a license)
🛡️ Probably a bunch other Defenders I'm forgetting about

Now imagine explaining that to clients. You can just see them drift away after 4th Defender mention.

Would be good to have a tiny helper app to remind you which Defender does what. Call it Defender for Naming Convention or something.

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