Microsoft has just announced the general availability of Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux a few months after its release versionpreview.
“The addition of Linux to Microsoft Defender ATP's natively supported platforms marks an important moment for all of our customers. It makes Microsoft Defender Security Center a truly unified application για την παρακολούθηση και τη management of all desktop and server platforms common in enterprise environments (Windows, Windows Server, macOS and Linux)”, he says Microsoft in a post today.
Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux supports a total of six different server distributions, including:
- RHEL 7.2+
- CentOS Linux 7.2+
- Ubuntu 16 LTS or higher LTS version
- SLES 12+
- Debian 9 +
- OracleLinux 7.2
Microsoft, which is increasingly focusing on the Linux ecosystem, should not necessarily be a surprise, as the company has recently been making huge efforts to expand on this platform.
The Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is currently released as version 2 in Windows 10, is the living proof, as it allows users to run Linux distributions from within Windows. THE new edition released with the May 2020 Update (or version 2004) and brings a Linux kernel modified by Microsoft itself.
The new antivirus is supposed to offer command line support to the client, but what administrators need to know is that the installation του Microsoft Defender ATP για Linux απαιτεί μια άδεια του Microsoft Defender ATP for Servers.
The company says it is planning even more improvements for Linux, and we will have more announcements soon.
“We're just at the beginning of our Linux journey and we're not stopping here! We are committed to continuous expansion of capabilities us on Linux and we'll bring you more improvements in the coming months," the company says.