Summary:
Beginning on October 1, 2025, Microsoft will be renaming its Microsoft 365 E5 mini-suites. Microsoft 365 E5 Security becomes the Microsoft Defender Suite, and Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance becomes the Microsoft Purview Suite.
These suites allow organizations to effectively handle external cyber threats and internal data risks through a single, integrated solution.
Question: What will the new names of the suits be and what do I need to know about them?
Answer:
Microsoft Defender Suite
Entra ID P2: Risk-based conditional access, visibility into risky sign-ins and user behavior anomalies. ID Governance and Privileged Identity Mgmt.
Defender for Identity: A cloud-based identity security solution that uses your on-premises Active Directory signals to identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities, and malicious insider actions directed at your organization.
MDO P2: Advanced email and collaboration security with automated investigation and response, and end user phishing simulation trainings .
MDE P2: Endpoint security and EDR with advanced threat hunting, and access to threat experts for more investigations.
Defender for Cloud Apps: SaaS security solution to automatically discover and block apps based on risk level, unusual user activity, or data-sharing behavior to protect against sophisticated SaaS-based attacks.
Microsoft Purview Suite
Automatically discover, classify and label sensitive data, and prevent its unauthorized use across apps, services, and devices with integrated Information Protection and DLP.
Understand user intent around use of sensitive data and defend against insider risks with Insider Risk Management and Adaptive Protection to automatically adapt policies based on risk level.
Protect Microsoft 365 Copilot data from accidental oversharing, data leaks, or noncompliance usage.
Drive adherence to common industry and regional regulations (for example EU AI Act, ISO, etc.) with prebuilt templates in Compliance Manager .
Streamline your response to events and investigations with Audit retention policies and Audit insights and drive investigation efficiencies with eDiscovery workflows and analytics.