While the agentless approach offers significant advantages, Microsoft Defender for IoT recognizes the need for enhanced security in certain IoT/OT deployments. To address this, Defender for IoT provides lightweight security agents designed for seamless integration with your new IoT/OT initiatives.
These micro agents deliver granular endpoint visibility, empowering comprehensive security posture management and advanced threat detection capabilities. Additionally, they integrate seamlessly with other Microsoft security tools, fostering a unified security management approach.
Key Benefits of Defender for IoT Lightweight Agents:
Enhanced Security Posture Management: Gain in-depth visibility into the security posture of your IoT devices. Defender for IoT leverages the CIS benchmark and device-specific data to provide actionable security recommendations. This includes insights into operating system security, encompassing OS configuration, firewall settings, and permission management.
Advanced Threat Detection: Micro agents enable the detection of sophisticated threats such as botnets, brute force attacks, cryptocurrency miners, unauthorized hardware connections, and anomalous network activity. This detection leverages the comprehensive Microsoft Threat Intelligence (TI) database to ensure real-time protection.
Proactive Vulnerability Management: Maintain a comprehensive view of your device vulnerabilities with the help of dynamic Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) analysis and real-time operating system updates. This proactive approach allows for prioritized mitigation efforts and reduced attack surface.
Streamlined Security Management with Microsoft Sentinel: Integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Sentinel, a powerful SIEM and SOAR solution. Sentinel empowers comprehensive investigation and management of your device security, enabling the creation of custom dashboards and automated response playbooks. This centralized approach facilitates a holistic security posture.
Granular Event Analysis: Defender for IoT allows for in-depth investigation of all raw security events sent from your devices. These events are readily accessible within your Log Analytics workspace, enabling detailed forensic analysis and incident response procedures.
Here is how we can help:
- Deployment of Micro-Agent on IoT Devices: The micro agent collects, aggregates, and analyzes raw security events from your devices. Events can include IP connections, process creation, user logons, and other security-relevant information. Our engineers can deploy mico-agent on your IoT devices.
By leveraging lightweight agents alongside the agentless deployment option, Microsoft Defender for IoT offers a comprehensive security solution tailored to the unique needs of your evolving IoT/OT environment. This hybrid approach ensures both efficient network monitoring and in-depth endpoint visibility, ultimately strengthening your overall cyber resilience.