Security News > 2020 > February > Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux, Coming Soon for Android and iOS

Almost within a year after releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection for macOS computers, Microsoft today announced a public preview of its antivirus software for various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and Debian.

If this news hasn't gotten you excited yet.... Microsoft is also planning to soon release Defender ATP anti-malware apps for smartphones and other devices running Google's Android and Apple's iOS mobile operating systems.

Despite the fact that the attack surface for Linux is much much smaller, Linux has its own share of vulnerabilities and malware threats, and you need proactive monitoring to keep your system safe.

"The AI capabilities built into Microsoft Security solutions are trained on 8 trillion daily threat signals and the insights of 3,500 security experts. Custom algorithms and machine learning models make, and learn from, billions of queries every day," said Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President of the Cybersecurity Solutions Group.

A timeline for when Microsoft would release the iOS and Android versions have not been specified, although the company said it would be available later this year.

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