Microsoft Defender Suite
Strengthen protection and cut licensing costs at once. This one-pager shows how Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium unifies security across identities, endpoints, devices, email, collaboration, and SaaS applications on a Zero Trust foundation. Read the one-pager and reach out to Granite Networks to see how we can bring this protection to your organization.
What is Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium?
Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium is an integrated security solution designed to protect your organization across identities, endpoints, apps, and email. Instead of managing multiple point tools, you get a single, connected suite that helps you:
- Secure identities and access with risk-based conditional access, sign-in assessments, and visibility into risky sign-ins and user behavior anomalies.
- Protect devices using industry-leading antimalware, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and advanced threat hunting.
- Safeguard collaboration with advanced email and collaboration security, including automated investigation and response and end-user phishing simulation trainings.
- Manage SaaS risk by uncovering Shadow IT, identifying configuration gaps, and monitoring line-of-business (LoB) apps for governance and protection.
Microsoft is recognized as a leader in 19 different security categories by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, which means the capabilities in this suite are built on widely validated security technologies.
How does Defender Suite support Zero Trust and unified security operations?
Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium is built around a Zero Trust approach and a unified security operations platform to help you rethink how you protect your digital estate.
From a Zero Trust perspective, the suite helps you:
- Assume breach and continuously verify each request instead of trusting by default.
- Fully authenticate and authorize every access attempt before granting it.
- Use risk-based conditional access and identity protection to adapt controls based on user behavior and sign-in risk.
On the operations side, it provides:
- Unified exposure management to continuously assess your security posture and enable proactive risk management.
- A single, integrated platform for end-to-end security operations, so your team can investigate and respond to threats across identities, endpoints, email, and cloud apps from one place.
- Built-in response and automated playbooks plus context-rich identity insights to speed up investigations and incident handling.
With cyber threats growing rapidly and phishing attacks increasingly using AI, this unified and Zero Trust-aligned approach helps you reimagine how you manage risk across your entire environment.
What cost and value benefits does Defender Suite offer?
Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium is designed to deliver both cost savings and consolidated value compared to buying multiple standalone security tools.
Key financial and value points include:
- Save up to 65% per license compared to purchasing the included capabilities separately.
- The suite bundles multiple products—such as Defender for Endpoint P2, Defender for Office 365 P2, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, and Microsoft Entra ID Plan 2—into a single per-user, per-month license.
- You reduce the overhead of managing and integrating different vendors and tools, which can lower operational costs and complexity.
Industry data underscores the financial impact of security incidents. For example, the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report highlights how long it can take—measured in days—to identify and contain breaches involving stolen credentials. During that time, password attacks can occur at a very high rate (measured in attacks per second), driving up risk and potential cost.
By consolidating advanced identity, endpoint, email, and SaaS security into one suite, Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium helps you reshape your security strategy while controlling licensing and operational expenses.
Microsoft Defender Suite
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