Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Web Content Filtering – Migrate Rules from Existing Security Software
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Web Content Filtering – Migrate Rules from Existing Security Software

In my last blog, I wrote about web content filtering in MDATP and how it now allows you to block website categories on the client across all apps.  Category blockers are great because, with one easy checkbox, you ban hundreds of thousands of dangerous on inappropriate websites.  Nothing is perfect, though, and anyone who's ever worked a helpdesk or SOC will attest that false positives and false negatives are common. The engine for MDATP…
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Web Content Filtering – Administration, Limitations, and User Experience
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Web Content Filtering – Administration, Limitations, and User Experience

Historically, one of the big features missing "out of the box" with MDATP was web content filtering.  Customers typically look at MDATP as an option when their existing endpoint security is due for license renewal, and compare their existing solution against it.  They would be moving from one of the big security vendors such as Sophos, Norton, and McAfee, which all supported web content filtering.  Higher lever stakeholders often listed the ability to block…