Mar 13, 2024
Defender for Cloud and Defender XDR Connectors in Sentinel
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud has received multiple updates. Microsoft has introduced a new tenant-level Defender for Cloud connector, replacing the old subscription-level one. Additionally, they have implemented a new functionality, allowing detections from Defender for Cloud to be integrated into Defender XDR, along with detections from other Defender solutions. There are […]
Read More Sep 18, 2023
From Noise to Action: Analyzing Activity Alerts and Preventing Genuine Threats with Defender for Cloud Apps
If you worked in a SOC, you know that during an analysis, correlating sessions to identify malicious activity or compromise is necessary, yet hard or impossible to perform, based on the available logs from activity-based alerts from Defender for Cloud Apps. In this blog post, we will go over the following topics: What are the […]
Read More Sep 29, 2021
Defender for IoT Raw Log Integration into Sentinel
Microsoft Defender for IoT sensors have limited out-of-the-box capabilities to integrate their data into Azure Sentinel. Today the sensor platform supports only sending alerts to Sentinel, which is limiting since a modern SOC must have the ability to correlate any relevant sensor data that occurred around the alerts with other sources to form a complete […]
Read More Aug 25, 2021
Microsoft 365 Defender, Azure Defender, Azure Sentinel One-Page Diagram
In the past we have published individual diagrams for a number of Microsoft cloud security solutions, but in the end we always intended to have the larger picture that can provide analysts with a visual understanding on what type of data is exchanged between various Microsoft security controls and how that data is used to […]
Read More Jun 29, 2021
Defender TVM: Configuration Benchmark Management
By Caleb Freitas Vulnerability and Benchmark configuration management programs provide significant corrective and preventative controls that reduce exposure against real-world threats. While most organizations use third-party solutions such as Tenable Nessus or Qualys for vulnerability management, those solutions come with additional agent installations, licensing, and management overhead. With Microsoft Defender, licensing for vulnerability management is […]
Read More Jun 28, 2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – One Page Diagram
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) is becoming a critical component of the Defender family as more and more attack vectors rely on bypassing email security controls to reach the endpoint. Initially known as Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, Defender for Office advanced significantly and, due to the sustained effort from Microsoft engineers, has become […]
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