Traditional antivirus tools can’t detect and block breach indicators or compromised machines. Cybersecurity requires modernization. Ascent consultants’ deep Microsoft experience meets each client—regardless of size, maturity, and industry—where they’re at. Let Ascent guide your team to configure, deploy, manage, and test Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

Deployment Structure

Assess current data protection landscape during a discovery workshop
Gather and document environment-specific needs
Implement best practice configurations for each required platform
Evaluate Defender for Endpoint’s onboarding process for deployment
Initiate industry standard MITRE attack simulations for behavioral detection engineering
Deploy and configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to client environment

Timeline

Week 1: Discovery & Requirements
Week 2: Baseline Configurations
Week 3: Proof-of-Concept Deployment
Week 4: Pilot Deployment
Week 5+: Production Deployment Start

Scope and Customer Commitment

Products covered: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Customer size: 2500 endpoints or more
Customer commitment:
Defender for Endpoint Trial or
E3 licensing with E5 Security add-on or
E5 licensing
Defender for Servers P1
Microsoft Security and Intune Console Access
Network connectivity to required internet hosted services
Stakeholder availability

Deliverables

Implementation and Design Plan

Test Case Documentation

Current EDR and Antivirus Removal

Incident and Feature Testing

Pilot Deployment

Production Deployment

Engagement cost is subject to project scoping

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Rapid Deployment

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