Quickstart: Accessing Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI) - Microsoft Defender (2024)

This guide walks you through how to access Microsoft Threat Intelligence (Defender TI) from the Microsoft Defender portal, adjust the portal's theme to make it easier on your eyes when using it, and find sources for enrichment so you can see more results when gathering threat intelligence.

Prerequisites

• A Microsoft Entra ID or personal Microsoft account. Sign in or create an account

• A Defender TI premium license.

  Note

  Users without a Defender TI premium license can still access our free Defender TI offering.

Open Defender TI in the Microsoft Defender portal

1. Access the Defender portal and complete the Microsoft authentication process. Learn more about the Defender portal

2. Navigate to Threat intelligence. You can access Defender TI in the following pages:

   • Intel profiles
   • Intel explorer
   • Intel projects

   

Adjust the Defender portal's display theme to dark or light mode

By default, the Defender portal's display theme is set to light mode. To switch to dark mode, on the Defender portal, navigate to Home then select Dark mode on the upper right-right corner of the home page.

To switch back to light mode, select Light mode in the same upper-right hand corner of the home page.

Catch up on the latest threat intelligence

You can keep yourself updated with the latest and most notable threat intelligence articles through the Featured threat intelligence article widget or through the article digest notifications.

Featured threat intelligence articles widget

The Featured threat intelligence articles widget in the Defender portal home page displays the recent Defender TI publications that are tagged as Featured articles:

Article digest

In the Intel explorer page, a banner message notifies you of the number of new Defender TI articles that were published since you last accessed the Defender portal. Select Show me to open a flyout panel that lists the articles you might have missed, then select any of the listed articles to open it:

Select the Clear button in the flyout panel or close the banner message to clear the article digest:

Get help and learn about Defender TI support resources

Select the Help icon in the upper right-hand corner of the Defender portal. The side panel displays a search bar where you can type your problem or support question.

You can also review Microsoft's licensing resources and privacy statement by selecting Legal and Privacy & Cookies, respectively, at the lower right hand of the Help side panel.

Sign out of the Defender portal

1. Select the My account icon in the upper right-hand corner of the Defender portal.
2. Select Sign out.

Clean up resources

There are no resources to clean up in this section.

See also

• What is Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI)?