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title: Microsoft Defender Security Center
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# Microsoft Defender Security Center

Microsoft Defender Security Center is the portal where you can access Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection capabilities. It gives enterprise security operations teams a single pane of glass experience to help secure networks.

## In this section

Topic | Description
:---|:---
Get started  |  Learn about the minimum requirements, validate licensing and complete setup, know about preview features, understand data storage and privacy, and how to assign user access to the portal.
[Onboard machines](onboard-configure.md) | Learn about onboarding client, server, and non-Windows machines. Learn how to run a detection test, configure proxy and Internet connectivity settings, and how to troubleshoot potential onboarding issues.
[Understand the portal](use.md) | Understand the Security operations, Secure Score, and Threat analytics dashboards as well as how to navigate the portal.
Investigate and remediate threats | Investigate alerts, machines, and take response actions to remediate threats.
API and SIEM support | Use the supported APIs to pull and create custom alerts, or automate workflows. Use the supported SIEM tools to pull alerts from Microsoft Defender Security Center.
Reporting | Create and build Power BI reports using Microsoft Defender ATP data.
Check service health and sensor state | Verify that the service is running and check the sensor state on machines.
[Configure Microsoft Defender Security Center settings](preferences-setup.md) | Configure general settings, turn on the preview experience, notifications, and enable other features.
[Access the Microsoft Defender ATP Community Center](community.md) | Access the Microsoft Defender ATP Community Center to learn, collaborate, and share experiences about the product.
[Troubleshoot service issues](troubleshoot-mdatp.md) | This section addresses issues that might arise as you use the Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat service.