Microsoft Defender Engines

Overview of Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Huntress Managed AV with Microsoft Defender Antivirus protects your Windows devices from software threats, such as viruses, malware, and spyware. Here's a list of the common modules:

Anti-malware - Also Criteria

Always-on protection consists of Real-time Protection, Behavior Monitoring, and heuristics to identify malware based on known suspicious and malicious activities.

Exploit protection - Exploit protection automatically applies many exploit mitigation techniques to operating system processes and apps

Network Protection - Network protection helps protect devices from Internet-based events. Network protection is an attack surface reduction capability.

System guard - Windows Defender System Guard reorganizes the existing Windows 10 system integrity features under one roof and sets up the next set of investments in Windows security

Threat protection - In Windows, hardware and software work together to help protect you from new and emerging threats

Network Inspection - Network protection is an attack surface reduction capability.

IE/Outlook Antivirus  - Web protection lets you secure your devices against web threats and helps you regulate unwanted content. Often referred to as IoavProtectionEnabled.

Anti-spyware - Spyware collects data, such as web-browsing activity, and sends the data to remote servers.

On-access protection 

Pertinent Information:

• Malware Prevention Tips
• Security Technical Articles
• Manage Updates
• Global Threat Updates
• Firewall
• Security-Malware-Windows-Defender