Defender For Storage Introduction
In brief
The Defender for Storage overview now specifies that on-demand malware scanning can target individual blobs, files, containers, or file shares.
What Defender admins need to know
Administrators can identify the supported targeted scan scopes when using or documenting malware scanning.
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Documentation change
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Malware scanning (powered by Microsoft Defender Antivirus)
Malware scanning in Defender for Storage protects storage accounts from malicious objects by performing a full malware scan on uploaded objects or via on-demand malware scanning,scanning - including targeted scans of specific blobs, files, containers, or file shares - applying Microsoft Defender Antivirus capabilities. It fulfills security and compliance requirements to handle untrusted content. Once a file is scanned, results are returned using a variety of methods. Malware scanning is an agentless SaaS solution that allows simple setup at scale, with zero maintenance, and supports remediating malicious files at scale. Malware scanning is a configurable feature in the new Defender for Storage plan that is priced per GB scanned. Learn more about Malware scanning.
Sensitive data threat detection (powered by Sensitive Data Discovery)
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Defender for Storage continuously analyzes data and control plane logs from prot ### Malware scanning (powered by Microsoft Defender Antivirus) -Malware scanning in Defender for Storage protects storage accounts from malicious objects by performing a full malware scan on uploaded objects or via on-demand malware scanning, applying Microsoft Defender Antivirus capabilities. It fulfills security and compliance requirements to handle untrusted content. Once a file is scanned, results are returned using a variety of methods. Malware scanning is an agentless SaaS solution that allows simple setup at scale, with zero maintenance, and supports remediating malicious files at scale. Malware scanning is a configurable feature in the new Defender for Storage plan that is priced per GB scanned. Learn more about [Malware scanning](defender-for-storage-malware-scan.md).+Malware scanning in Defender for Storage protects storage accounts from malicious objects by performing a full malware scan on uploaded objects or via on-demand malware scanning - including targeted scans of specific blobs, files, containers, or file shares - applying Microsoft Defender Antivirus capabilities. It fulfills security and compliance requirements to handle untrusted content. Once a file is scanned, results are returned using a variety of methods. Malware scanning is an agentless SaaS solution that allows simple setup at scale, with zero maintenance, and supports remediating malicious files at scale. Malware scanning is a configurable feature in the new Defender for Storage plan that is priced per GB scanned. Learn more about [Malware scanning](defender-for-storage-malware-scan.md). ### Sensitive data threat detection (powered by Sensitive Data Discovery) 