You have Windows 11 devices onboarded to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and need to compare their configurations against industry-standard benchmarks. Which Defender for Endpoint feature should you use?

Security baselines assessment is the correct feature because it directly compares the security configurations of your onboarded devices against recommended industry benchmarks, such as those from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) or Microsoft's own security baselines. This allows you to identify configuration drift and non-compliance. Attack surface map provides a visual representation of potential attack vectors, not configuration comparisons. Events logs security activities and alerts, which is reactive rather than proactive configuration assessment. Initiatives are used for managing and tracking security projects or goals, not for automated baseline comparisons.