Defender

Secure Score, Incidents and Devices in Defender

Report on Secure Score, incidents, alerts and vulnerable software, act on devices, and run advanced hunting queries.

What you can see

Secure Score

The tenant's Secure Score and its improvement actions. Set an action's state from a workflow.

Incidents and alerts

Report on incidents and alerts, then update them or add a comment from a workflow.

Device health

Defender for Endpoint beside Entra ID and Intune in 1 device list, and reports of security recommendations and vulnerable software.

How it works

Explore, report and make changes

  1. Add the tenant

    Sign in once as an administrator and choose the access Altivane gets.

  2. Run the reports

    Secure Score, incidents, alerts and devices, to an Excel workbook.

  3. Run a change

    Select the devices and the change, check the window, then Run.

Reports

Each report writes its tables to an Excel workbook, with a separate sheet for each table.

Scorecard reports

Rated OK, Warning or Critical against thresholds you set, with a section in the client's document when you build documents.

  • Secure Score
  • Incidents and Alerts
  • Defender for Endpoint
  • Email Protection

Incidents and alerts

  • Incidents
  • Alerts

Devices

  • Defender Devices
  • Security Recommendations
  • Vulnerable Software

Secure Score

  • Secure Score Improvement Actions

Changes

Select the devices and choose a change. Its window shows what it will do, which devices it affects and the tenant. Select Run to make the change; it is recorded in the tenant's change log.

Devices

  • Isolate a device
  • Release a device from isolation
  • Restrict app execution on a device
  • Remove app restriction from a device
  • Run an antivirus scan through Defender for Endpoint
  • Collect an investigation package
  • Offboard a device
  • Add a device tag
  • Remove a device tag

In a workflow

Start from a sample, or make a workflow from the change to run it over the rows of a CSV file.

  • Update incidents
  • Comment on incidents
  • Update alerts
  • Comment on alerts
  • Set improvement action state
  • Add threat indicators
  • Remove threat indicators

Workflows

Repeat a task the same way each time, manually or on a schedule.

Sample workflows

Start from a sample and adapt it.

  • Resolve Old Informational Incidents
  • Scan Devices Needing Antivirus Attention
Explore workflows

Guides for Defender

Compare everyday tasks in PowerShell, the admin centre and Altivane.

All Defender guides

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