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Microsoft announced today that Azure Defender for IoT, its agentless security solution for networked IoT and Operational Technology devices, has entered public preview.
Azure Defender for IoT is an IoT/OT device threat protection solution that integrates with Microsoft's Azure Sentinel and third-party solutions to provide continuous threat monitoring and vulnerability management.
"You can deploy these capabilities fully on-premises without sending any data to Azure," Phil Neray, Director of Azure IoT Security Strategy, explained.
The alerts sent by Azure Defender for IoT into Azure Sentinel are triggered by analytics detection engines for protocol violation, policy violation, industrial malware detection, anomaly detection, and operational incident detection included on sensors used to collect ICS network traffic.
Azure Defender for IoT can be tried for free while in public preview, the only requirement being an Azure Defender subscription that is also free of charge for the first 30 days.