This is all part of a wider pattern of beefing up Defender with an eye on open source. Earlier this month, the company expanded the tamper protection for Defender for Endpoint to include antivirus exclusions. The Linux device isolation is the latest recent security feature Microsoft has put into the cloud service. If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows, Microsoft has a suggestion.Microsoft closes another door to attackers by blocking Excel XLL files from the internet.Microsoft and community release scripts to help mitigate Defender mess.Microsoft Defender ASR rules strip icons, app shortcuts from Taskbar, Start Menu.

Linux devices that can use the Defender for Endpoint include Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Ubuntu, Desbian, SUSE Linux, Oracle Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux, and Fedora. Microsoft has outlined the APIs for both isolating the device and releasing it from lock down. Users can get to the device page of the Linux systems through the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, where they will see an 'Isolate Device' tab in the upper right among other response actions.

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