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Onboarding and Managing Linux Servers
In this chapter, you will learn about extending Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) to Linux, the most popular server OS type. You are indeed reading this correctly: you can now get antimalware protection from Microsoft for Linux servers. You’ve already explored how to onboard other desktop and server OSs to MDE, so by extending this to your Linux server estate, you’ll reap the benefits of a central endpoint detection and response (EDR) and antimalware system to defend against threats and respond to incidents.
The process for Linux servers is similar to macOS but has differences you’ll need to be aware of due to the nature of how Linux server distributions operate and are managed. Therefore, in this ...
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