Improving email security outcomes with real-world Microsoft Defender insights
Brief
Every benchmark tells a story. The most valuable ones tell us where to improve next.
For five consecutive quarters Microsoft has published email security benchmarking reports to provide greater transparency into real-world protection outcomes. The results have shown strong Microsoft Defender performance across pre-delivery and post-delivery scenarios, while revealing where threats and defenses continue to evolve.
This quarter’s benchmark examines how continuous measurement informs protection across prevention, detection, and adaptation, and how those insights are helping improve customer outcomes.
Read the latest Microsoft benchmarking data for email security
Key takeaways
- Defender again missed the fewest high-severity threats among the solutions evaluated, about 55% fewer than the next-closest secure email gateway (SEG) vendor.