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Microsoft Defender MCP Server
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Connect your AI agent to StackOne's Microsoft Defender MCP server and give it 23 MCP tools out of the box. Auth, tool execution, and security all managed.

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23 Agent Actions

Agents can read, write, delete and run operations in Microsoft Defender. Extend your agent's capabilities with custom actions.

Authentication

Agent Tool Authentication

Per-user OAuth in one call. Your Microsoft Defender MCP server gets session-scoped tokens with zero credentials stored on your infra.

Agent Auth →

Security

Agent Protection

Every Microsoft Defender tool response scanned for prompt injection in milliseconds, with 88.7% accuracy, all running on CPU.

Prompt Injection Defense →

Performance

Max Agent Context. Min Cost.

Free up to 96% of your agent's context window to enhance reasoning and reduce cost, on every Microsoft Defender call.

Tools Discovery →

What is the Microsoft Defender MCP Server?

A Microsoft Defender MCP server lets AI agents read and write Microsoft Defender data through the Model Context Protocol, Anthropic's open standard for connecting LLMs to external tools. StackOne's Microsoft Defender MCP server ships with 23 pre-built actions, fully extensible via the Connector Builder, plus managed authentication, prompt injection defense, observability, and agent execution runtime. Connect it from MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Goose, and VS Code, or from agent frameworks like OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain, and Vercel AI SDK.

All Microsoft Defender MCP Tools

Every StackOne action for Microsoft Defender, ready for your agent. Read, write, delete and run operations, scoped to exactly what you need.

Alerts

  • List Alerts

    List security alerts raised by Microsoft Defender and integrated providers.

  • Get Alert

    Get a single security alert by its ID, including evidence and the policy that generated it.

  • Update Alert

    Update an alert's status, classification, determination, assignee or custom details.

Alert Comments

  • Create Alert Comment

    Add a comment to an existing security alert.

Analyzed Emails

  • List Analyzed Emails

    List emails analyzed by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Threat Explorer data) within a time window.

  • Get Analyzed Email

    Get one email analyzed by Microsoft Defender for Office 365, including verdicts, policy actions, URLs and attachments.

Remediate Analyzed Emails

  • Remediate Analyzed Emails

    Remove a threat from users' mailboxes by moving or deleting analyzed emails, or move false positives back to the inbox.

Audit Log Queries

  • List Audit Log Queries

    List unified audit log queries created in the tenant and their status.

Audit Log Querys

  • Create Audit Log Query

    Start an asynchronous search of the Microsoft 365 unified audit log.

  • Get Audit Log Query

    Get an audit log query and its current status.

Audit Log Records

  • List Audit Log Records

    List the audit log records returned by a completed audit log query.

Email Threat Submissions

  • Create Email Threat Submission

    Submit a suspected spam, phishing or malware email, or a false positive, to Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

  • List Email Threat Submissions

    List emails reported to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 as spam, phishing, malware or false positives.

  • Get Email Threat Submission

    Get a single email threat submission and its rescan result.

Review Email Threat Submissions

  • Review Email Threat Submission

    Record an administrator's review verdict on a user-reported email threat submission.

Run Hunting Querys

  • Run Hunting Query

    Run a Kusto (KQL) advanced hunting query over up to 30 days of Microsoft Defender data, including email events.

Incidents

  • List Incidents

    List Microsoft Defender incidents that correlate related alerts into a single attack story.

  • Get Incident

    Get a single Microsoft Defender incident by its ID.

  • Update Incident

    Update an incident's status, assignee, classification, determination, severity or tags.

Incident Comments

  • Create Incident Comment

    Add a comment to an existing Microsoft Defender incident.

Threat Assessment Requests

  • Create Threat Assessment Request

    Submit a mail message, email file, file or URL for Microsoft to assess and report the policy result.

  • List Threat Assessment Requests

    List threat assessment requests submitted to check how Microsoft's scanning judges mail, files or URLs.

  • Get Threat Assessment Request

    Get a threat assessment request, optionally expanding its policy check and rescan results.

Set Up Your Microsoft Defender MCP Server in Minutes

One endpoint. Any framework. Your agent is talking to Microsoft Defender in under 10 lines of code.

Agent Frameworks

Claude Desktop
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stackone": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote@latest",
        "https://api.stackone.com/mcp?x-account-id=<account_id>",
        "--header",
        "Authorization: Basic <YOUR_BASE64_TOKEN>"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Microsoft Defender MCP Server FAQ

Does StackOne have a Microsoft Defender MCP server?
Yes. StackOne offers a hosted Microsoft Defender MCP server with 23 pre-built actions, and every action is tested and QA'd by StackOne. Connect it to Claude, Cursor, and any other MCP client, or to any agent framework through the AI Action SDK. It ships with managed agent authentication, prompt injection defense, and tool discovery with server-side execution that preserve your agent's context window and keep reasoning performance.
Microsoft Defender MCP server vs direct API integration: what's the difference?
A Microsoft Defender MCP server and direct API integration serve different use cases. Direct API integration is for software-to-software work, where backend code calls Microsoft Defender. A Microsoft Defender MCP server is for AI agents that discover and call Microsoft Defender at runtime, such as MCP clients like Claude and Cursor, plus framework agents built with OpenAI, LangChain, or Vercel AI. StackOne provides both.
How does Microsoft Defender authentication work for AI agents?
Microsoft Defender authentication for AI agents works through a StackOne Connect Session. Create one via the dashboard or the SDK to get an auth link and ready-to-paste config for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other MCP clients. Your user authenticates their own Microsoft Defender account; StackOne handles token exchange, storage, and refresh. Credentials never reach the LLM, and each user is isolated via origin_owner_id.
Are Microsoft Defender MCP tools vulnerable to prompt injection?
Yes. Microsoft Defender MCP tools can be vulnerable to indirect prompt injection. Any tool that reads user-written content, such as documents, messages, tickets, records, or free-text fields, is a potential vector. StackOne Defender scans every tool response before it enters the agent's context. It runs regex patterns in ~1ms, then a MiniLM classifier in ~4ms. Accuracy is 88.7%, and it runs entirely on CPU.
What is the context bloat of a Microsoft Defender agent and how do I avoid it?
Context bloat happens when Microsoft Defender tool schemas and API responses eat your Microsoft Defender agent's memory, preventing it from reasoning effectively. A single Microsoft Defender query can return a massive JSON response, and connecting multiple tools compounds the problem. Tools Discovery reduces it by loading only the tools relevant to each query.
Can I limit which actions my Microsoft Defender agent can access?
Yes. You can limit which actions your Microsoft Defender agent can access directly from the StackOne dashboard. Toggle actions on or off, or restrict them to specific accounts, with no code changes to your agent. Session tokens can be scoped to exact actions so if one leaks, exposure stays contained.
Can I create custom agent actions for my Microsoft Defender MCP server?
Yes. You can create custom agent actions for your Microsoft Defender MCP server using Connector Builder. It's an integration agent your coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot) can invoke to research Microsoft Defender's API, generate production-ready connector YAML, test against the live API, and validate before you ship.
When should I NOT use a Microsoft Defender MCP server?
Skip a Microsoft Defender MCP server if your integration is purely software-to-software, because direct Microsoft Defender API integration is simpler when no AI agent is involved. For deterministic, compliance-critical operations (financial transactions, regulatory reporting), direct API gives you predictable behavior without agent-driven decision-making. MCP shines when AI agents need to dynamically discover and call Microsoft Defender actions at runtime.
What AI frameworks and AI clients does the StackOne Microsoft Defender MCP server support?
The StackOne Microsoft Defender MCP server supports both. MCP clients (paste-and-go apps): Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Goose. Agent frameworks (code SDKs you build with): OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic, Vercel AI, Google ADK, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, LangChain, LangGraph, Azure AI Foundry.

Put your AI agents to work

All the tools you need to build and scale AI agent integrations, with best-in-class connectivity, execution, and security.