The new web content filtering capability from Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) will be available for free to all enterprise customers without requiring any additional permission.
Web Content Filtering (Web Content Filtering) is part of the Internet protection capabilities of Microsoft Defender ATP and allows security administrators to design and deploy custom web usage policies across their organizations, making it simple to monitor and control access to websites based on their category their content.
The feature is available on all major web browsers running Network Protection (Chrome and Firefox) or SmartScreen on the Edge.
Following them comments of customers during the public preview announced at the end of January, Microsoft decided to offer content filtering for the web "as part of Microsoft Defender ATP without the need for any additional licensing."
"Now you enjoy the benefits of filtering web content without the need for additional permissions, hardware and costs", he said today Microsoft in a post on its blog.
Among the benefits of the new Web Content Filtering feature, Microsoft mentions:
- Not allowed to users access sites in blocked categories, or browse
- You can easily develop different policies for different user groups using the device groups defined in the access control settings based on the role of Microsoft Defender ATP
- You can access reports from the same central location
You can read more in the official announcement.
