Microsoft DefenderDefender Experts
Microsoft’s managed threat hunting and XDR expertise, delivered as a service.
Microsoft Defender Experts delivers Microsoft’s own threat hunting and security expertise as a managed service — Defender Experts for Hunting provides proactive threat hunting across Defender data, and Defender Experts for XDR adds managed detection and response operated by Microsoft security experts. It augments your team with elite, Microsoft-backed expertise. Faltrox positions and coordinates it within your managed security programme.
Overview
What Defender Experts is
Even with the Microsoft Defender XDR platform, catching the most sophisticated threats and running 24/7 operations takes elite expertise most organisations cannot staff. Microsoft Defender Experts delivers that expertise as a service, drawing on Microsoft’s own security researchers and threat intelligence.
Defender Experts for Hunting provides proactive, expert-led threat hunting across your Defender for Endpoint, Office 365, Identity, and Cloud Apps data, surfacing the threats automated detection misses. Defender Experts for XDR goes further, providing managed detection and response — Microsoft experts monitoring, investigating, and responding to incidents on your behalf, with guided remediation. Faltrox positions and coordinates Defender Experts within the broader managed security programme it delivers.
Coverage
What it protects
The platforms, threats, and surfaces this product is built to defend.
Proactive Threat Hunting
Expert-led hunting across Defender data surfaces threats automation misses.
Microsoft Experts
Microsoft’s own security researchers and responders operate the service.
Cross-Defender Coverage
Hunts and responds across endpoint, email, identity, and cloud-app data.
Sophisticated Threats
Focuses expert attention on the advanced threats that need human judgement.
Managed XDR
Defender Experts for XDR provides managed detection and response.
Microsoft Intelligence
Backed by Microsoft’s vast global threat intelligence.
How it works
The mechanism
How the product moves from signal to protected state, step by step.
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Onboard
Your Defender XDR estate is connected, and Microsoft experts begin hunting or managed operations.
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Hunt
Defender Experts for Hunting proactively searches your Defender data for sophisticated threats.
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Detect & Investigate
Defender Experts for XDR monitors and investigates incidents on your behalf.
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Respond
Experts provide guided remediation and, for XDR, respond to incidents directly.
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Coordinate
Faltrox positions and coordinates Defender Experts within the broader managed security programme.
Capabilities
Key capabilities
Managed Threat Hunting
Defender Experts for Hunting proactively hunts across your Defender data.
Managed XDR
Defender Experts for XDR provides Microsoft-operated managed detection and response.
Microsoft Expertise
Microsoft’s own security researchers and responders operate the service.
Cross-Defender Coverage
Hunts and responds across endpoint, email, identity, and cloud-app data.
Guided Remediation
Provides expert guidance and, for XDR, direct incident response.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence
Backed by Microsoft’s vast global threat intelligence.
Team Augmentation
Augments your team with elite, Microsoft-backed expertise.
Reduced MTTD/MTTR
Reduces mean time to detect and respond with expert-led operations.
Works with
Part of the platform
Microsoft products this pairs with, and the Faltrox services that operate it.
Delivery
You buy the outcome, not the console
Managed by Faltrox
Faltrox licenses, deploys, and tunes Microsoft Defender Experts for your environment, then runs it as part of a managed service, so you get the protection without staffing another security console.
FAQ
Common questions
01What does Defender Experts provide?
Microsoft’s own security expertise as a service. Defender Experts for Hunting provides proactive, expert-led threat hunting across your Defender data; Defender Experts for XDR adds managed detection and response operated by Microsoft experts. It brings elite, Microsoft-backed expertise to the threats that matter.
02What is the difference between the Hunting and XDR offerings?
Defender Experts for Hunting hunts across your Defender data and surfaces threats with guided remediation, complementing your team. Defender Experts for XDR is a fuller managed detection and response service where Microsoft experts monitor, investigate, and respond on your behalf.
03Does it replace our security team?
It augments it — adding Microsoft’s own expertise and threat intelligence to catch sophisticated threats and, with XDR, run operations, while your team retains ownership. Faltrox coordinates it within your programme.
04What data does it cover?
It hunts and responds across your Microsoft Defender XDR data — endpoint, email and collaboration, identity, and cloud apps — so it sees the full cross-domain picture rather than a single surface.
05How does Faltrox operate it?
We position and coordinate Defender Experts within the broader managed security programme we deliver — integrating it with your Defender XDR estate and the SOC services we run, so Microsoft’s expertise is part of one coherent managed defence.
Start an engagement
Secure what’s next.
Speak with the engineering team to define scope, walk through the methodology, and decide whether Faltrox is the right team to test and run your environment.
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