{"id":300302,"date":"2019-03-22T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=300302"},"modified":"2019-03-22T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:10:33","slug":"microsoft-bringing-its-antivirus-to-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/300302-microsoft-bringing-its-antivirus-to-mac.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft bringing its antivirus to Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working on bringing its Windows Defender antivirus software to Apple&#8217;s desktop operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/Windows-Defender-ATP\/Announcing-Microsoft-Defender-ATP-for-Mac\/ba-p\/378010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) software will be available for non-Windows customers as a unified software offering.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft Defender ATP client can be installed on devices running macOS Mojave, macOS High Sierra, or macOS Sierra, and is currently available as a limited preview.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said the interface of its Mac client would be similar to the Windows Defender software currently running on Windows 10 devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve been working closely with industry partners to enable Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection customers to protect their non-Windows devices while keeping a centralized single pane of glass experience,&#8221; the company stated.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Defender ATP will offer Mac users virus and threat protection, automatic threat investigation, endpoint detection and response, and vulnerability management.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can apply for a preview version of the client, and Microsoft will contact customers via email to confirm their participation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/26z6SwScYx4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/298996-which-programming-language-you-should-learn.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Which programming language you should learn<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working on bringing its Windows Defender antivirus software to Apple&#8217;s desktop operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":206794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13743,2120,123,43062],"class_list":["post-300302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-antivirus","tag-mac","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-defender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300304,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300302\/revisions\/300304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}