Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Endpoint protectionMonitoring web browsing security in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
In brief
The page description now points to web protection reports in the Microsoft Defender portal and mentions threat detection metrics and summary views. The Domains section wording and page metadata were also updated.
What Defender admins need to know
Administrators can use the revised description to identify the relevant web browsing security reports and available metrics.
Summaries are generated from the documentation change itself.
Documentation change
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Monitor web browsing security in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
View the domain list
Select a specific web threat category in the Web threat protection summary card to open the Domains page. ThisThe Domains page displays the list of the domains under that threat category. The Domains page provides the following information for each domain:
- Access count - number of requests for URLs in the domain
- Blocks - number of times requests were blocked
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: Monitoring web browsing security in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint-description: Use web protection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to monitor web browsing security+description: Monitor web browsing security in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by using web protection reports in the Microsoft Defender portal. Learn about available threat detection metrics and summary views. ms.service: defender-endpoint ms.author: lwainstein author: limwainstein@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ ms.collection: - mde-asr ms.topic: how-to ms.subservice: asr-ms.date: 06/16/2026+ms.date: 07/03/2026 appliesto: - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1 - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 ai-usage: ai-assisted-ms.custom: msecd-doc-authoring-1014+ms.custom: msecd-doc-authoring-1016 --- # Monitor web browsing security in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Web protection categorizes malicious and unwanted websites as: ## View the domain list -Select a specific web threat category in the **Web threat protection summary** card to open the **Domains** page. This page displays the list of the domains under that threat category. The **Domains** page provides the following information for each domain:+Select a specific web threat category in the **Web threat protection summary** card to open the **Domains** page. The **Domains** page displays the list of the domains under that threat category. The **Domains** page provides the following information for each domain: - **Access count** - number of requests for URLs in the domain - **Blocks** - number of times requests were blocked