Turning threat intelligence into decisive action with Defender Experts

In this article Upstream: See the campaign before it reaches you Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence Now Integrated into Defender In your environment: Follow the threat everywhere it moves See it live at Black Hat USA Security teams have never had more visibility, yet rarely have they felt more uncertain. Signal pours in from endpoints, identities, cloud workloads, and a sprawling mix of third-party tools. Dashboards are full, alerts keep coming, but the hardest question of the day remains unanswered: of everything happening right now, what actually matters to us , and what do we do about i t? That space between knowing a threat exists and acting on it is the intelligence-to-action gap, and it’s where most breaches are won or lost. It doesn’t close with another feed or another dashboard. It closes with expertise: seasoned defenders who know your environment, interpret what global signal means for your risk, and stay with you from the first indicator to the final response. Today we’re announcing a new service, Microsoft Defender Experts Threat Intelligence , and we are expanding Microsoft Defender Experts MDR to include new third-party and multi-cloud coverage. Together, these human-led offerings are designed to close the intelligence-to-action gap at the two moments that decide the outcome: before a campaign reaches you, and as it moves through your environment. Upstream: See the campaign before it reaches you The earlier you see a campaign forming, the more options you have, and the cheaper every decision becomes. Yet most threat intelligence still arrives as raw feeds or static reports: high in volume, low in context, and disconnected from what’s exposed in your estate. Teams end up with more to read and no more clarity on what to do about it. Microsoft Defender Experts Threat Intelligence is a new, expert-delivered service that closes that distance. Built on Microsoft’s visibility across endpoints, identity, cloud, and evolving attacker activity, it gives your team periodic, curated insight into the threats most likely to target you. Designated Microsoft experts interpret the global landscape through the lens of your industry, geography, and environment, then translate it into clear, prioritized guidance your team can act on. As campaigns evolve, experts continuously refine that guidance with newly observed infrastructure, tactics, and targeting patterns, helping your team adjust hunting, hardening, and response activities. The insight is tailored for both leadership and defenders, providing executive-ready context alongside technical recommendations so the entire organization can act from a shared understanding of the threat landscape. The goal is simple: help you reduce risk before an attack reaches your environment, not explain what happened after the fact. In practice, your team receives: Early-warning alerts on emerging campaigns relevant to you Campaign-evolution updates as activity unfolds Contextualized