Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management (NCE)

Shrink the window of exposure across campus devices by identifying, prioritizing, and remediating exploitable vulnerabilities. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management provides continuous asset discovery, risk-based vulnerability scoring, and prescriptive remediation guidance so IT teams focus on fixes that reduce real-world risk. Sold under the New Commerce Experience (NCE) with annual commitment and paid-monthly billing, this Education Student Pricing SKU maps purchasing to academic budgets while giving administrators centralized visibility and reporting. This SKU is optimized for institutions that must balance constrained budgets with measurable security outcomes: reduce high-impact vulnerabilities, minimize noisy alerts, and accelerate patch and configuration remediation workflows. Tight integration with Microsoft Defender telemetry lets teams validate remediation and measure risk reduction over time. For procurement, the annual commit secures predictable per-user pricing and education discounts compared with ad-hoc purchases. For operations, it removes manual triage by surfacing exploitability indicators and remediation steps that reduce mean time to remediate.