{{elastic-defend}} requirements

To properly deploy Elastic Defend without a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile, you must manually enable additional permissions on the host before Elastic Endpoint—the installed component that performs Elastic Defend's threat monitoring and prevention—is fully functional. For more information, refer to the instructions for your macOS version:

• Enable access for macOS Monterey
• Enable access for macOS Ventura and higher

Minimum system requirements

Requirement	Value
CPU	Under 2%
Disk space	1 GB
Resident set size (RSS) memory	500 MB