Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: The Latest Versions of Antivirus Engine & Signatures

This document discusses obtaining the latest versions of the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint antivirus engine and signatures, as well as the challenges associated with ensuring all hosts have the latest signature versions. It includes examples of how to retrieve the engine version from the defenderupdates page and how to obtain a list of signature versions from the antimalware-definition-release-notes page using GET requests and parsing HTML