File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) based on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in Azure Government*

General Availability of File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) based on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in Azure Government
March 03, 2025

File Integrity Monitoring based on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is now GA in Azure Government (GCCH) as part of Defender for Servers Plan 2.

• Meet compliance requirements by monitoring critical files and registries in real-time and auditing the changes.
• Identify potential security issues by detecting suspicious file content changes.
  This improved FIM experience replaces the existing one that set for deprecation with the Log Analytics Agent (MMA) retirement. The FIM experience over MMA will remain supported in Azure Government until the end of March 2023.

With this release, an in-product experience will be released to allow you to migrate your FIM configuration over MMA to the new FIM over Defender for Endpoint version.

For information on how to enable FIM over Defender for Endpoint, see File Integrity Monitoring using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. For information on how to disable previous versions and use the migration tool, see Migrate File Integrity Monitoring from previous versions.