{"id":14551,"date":"2021-11-02T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=14551"},"modified":"2021-11-24T17:07:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T22:07:31","slug":"microsoft-defender-for-windows-gets-a-massive-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-defender-for-windows-gets-a-massive-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Defender for Windows Gets a Massive Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Microsoft Defender Preview app, which was recently launched, aims to give home network administrators the right to monitor antivirus, phishing, compromised passwords and identity theft from a single security dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Home administrators also have the privilege of adding other family members to their personal dashboard via email or QR code, allowing a device to install an iOS, Android, Windows, or macOS agent that automatically enrols in the family&#8217;s security dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Viewing the new Microsoft Defender Security Dashboard, users can view health alerts for devices with Identity and &#8220;Connections&#8221; monitoring features coming soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also offers the Identity Theft Monitoring feature which will support child and adult subscriptions from API calls found in the Microsoft Defender Preview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Home network administrators can also use their &#8220;personal dashboard&#8221; to monitor all registered devices for &#8220;health&#8221; alerts including compromised passwords, malware alerts, or identity theft issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remains unknown when the Microsoft Defender Preview will be available for testing, although it is currently limited to Microsoft employees.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-defender-for-windows-is-getting-a-massive-overhaul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Microsoft Defender Preview app aims to give home network administrators the right to monitor antivirus, phishing, compromised passwords and identity theft from a single security dashboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14566,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551\/revisions\/14566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}