Microsoft just announced the general availability of Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux a few months after the release of the preview release.
“The addition of Linux to Microsoft Defender ATP's natively supported platforms marks an important moment for all of our customers. It does Microsoft Defender Security Center μια πραγματικά ενοποιημένη εφαρμογή για την παρακολούθηση και τη διαχείριση όλων των πλατφορμών επιτραπέζιων υπολογιστών και διακομιστών που είναι κοινοί σε εταιρικά περιβάλλοντα (Windows, Windows Server & Hosting, 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 live evidence, as it allows users to run Linux distributions from within Windows. The new version was released with the May 2020 Update (or version 2004) and brings a Linux kernel modified by Microsoft itself.
The new antivirus is supposed to provide command line support to the client, but what administrators need to know is that installing Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux requires a Microsoft Defender ATP for Servers license.
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.
