Network Protection for macOS starting deployment to General Availability on 1/31!

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 1, 2023 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Network Protection for macOS will soon be available for all Microsoft Defender for Endpoint onboarded macOS devices which meet the following criteria:

• Licensing: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint tenant (can be trial)

• Onboarded Machines:

• Minimum macOS version: 11 (Big Sur)

• Product version 101.94.13 or later

Note: If your organization does not utilize macOS devices you can safely disregard this message.

When this will happen:

Standard Release: Microsoft will begin incrementally rolling out the functionality for all macOS devices to enable Network Protection on January 31, 2023 with target completion, subject to change, by March 24, 2023.

How this will affect your organization:

When this feature rolls to production, all of your currently configured Network Protection and Web Threat Protection policies will be enforced on macOS devices where Network Protection is configured for block mode.

What you need to do to prepare:

For Network Protection for macOS to be active on your devices, Network Protection must be enabled by your organization. We suggest deploying the audit or block mode policy to a small set of devices and verify there are no issues or broken workstreams before gradually deploying to a larger set of devices.

Verify the Network Protection configuration on your macOS devices is set to the desired state.

Understand the impact of your Web Threat Protection, Custom Indicators of Compromise, Web Content Filtering, and MDA Endpoint Enforcement polices which target those macOS devices where Network Protection is in Block mode.

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