{"id":6416,"date":"2025-10-01T12:48:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:05:58","slug":"licensing-for-security-and-compliance","status":"publish","type":"lessons","link":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licenseverse\/microsoft-365-plans-for-smb-users\/licensing-for-security-and-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Licensing for security and compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/guidance\/subscription-suites#section-1-2:~:text=Frontline%20Worker%20suites.-,Microsoft%20365%20Business%20suites,-Online%20Service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suites<\/a> which offer security (Defender) and compliance (Purview) capabilities for small and medium-sized businesses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microsoft Purview Suite for Business Premium<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microsoft Defender + Purview Suite for Business Premium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re available as Add-on licenses for users already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/terms\/productoffering\/Microsoft365\/MCA#:~:text=%20for%20Business%20Premium-,Microsoft%20365%20Business%20Premium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">licensed<\/a> with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and, as you\u2019d expect with a \u201cBusiness\u201d branded license, there\u2019s the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/terms\/productoffering\/Microsoft365\/MCA#:~:text=Microsoft%20Defender%20for%20Business%2C%20Defender%20Suite%20for%20Business%20Premium%2C%20Purview%20Suite%20for%20Business%20Premium%2C%20Defender%20and%20Purview%20Suites%20for%20Business%20Premium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">limitation<\/a> of provisioning no more than 300 licenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These suites are intended to give parity with the components included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/guidance\/subscription-suites#section-1-179:~:text=individual%20online%20service.-,Microsoft%20365%20and%20Office%20365%20Enterprise%20suites,-Online%20Service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enterprise<\/a> versions of the same suites, but at a lower cost. As a comparison, the Microsoft Defender Suite is priced at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/pricing-overview#Pricing:~:text=Microsoft%20Defender%20Suite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$12<\/a> per user per month with an annual subscription, and the Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium costs <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/microsoft-security-blog\/introducing-new-security-and-compliance-add-ons-for-microsoft-365-business-premi\/4449297#:~:text=Microsoft%20Defender%20Suite%20for%20Business%20Premium%3A%20%2410\/user\/month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$10<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Availability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These licenses, aimed at SMB organizations, are only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/terms\/productoffering\/Microsoft365\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available<\/a> through CSP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>March 2025<\/strong> Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/microsoft_365blog\/microsoft-365-e5-security-is-now-available-as-an-add-on-to-microsoft-365-busines\/4388436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that Microsoft 365 Business Premium would also qualify as a prerequisite for Microsoft 365 E5 Security (as it was called then). However, in <strong>September 2025<\/strong> the special security and compliance licenses above were <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/microsoft-security-blog\/introducing-new-security-and-compliance-add-ons-for-microsoft-365-business-premi\/4449297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched<\/a> for SMB customers with Microsoft 365 Business Premium as the qualifying license. At that time, Microsoft 365 Business Premium was removed as a prerequisite for the rebranded Microsoft Defender Suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":2300,"menu_order":8,"template":"custom-single.php","lesson_category":[56],"class_list":["post-6416","lessons","type-lessons","status-publish","hentry","lesson_category-online-services","entry","no-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Licensing for security and compliance - LicenseVerse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licenseverse\/microsoft-365-plans-for-smb-users\/licensing-for-security-and-compliance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Licensing for security and compliance - 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