You're reading from Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender Implement Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, and Office 365 and respond to threats

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803241708

Length 572 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Office 365

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Authors (2):

Ru Campbell

Viktor Hedberg

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Table of Contents (33) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Cyber Threats and Microsoft 365 Defender

2. Chapter 1: Microsoft and Modern Cybersecurity Threats FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Microsoft 365 Defender: The Big Picture

4. Part 2: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

5. Chapter 3: The Fundamentals of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

6. Chapter 4: Onboarding Windows Clients and Servers

7. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Microsoft Defender Antivirus for Windows

8. Chapter 6: Advanced Microsoft Defender Antivirus for Windows

9. Chapter 7: Managing Attack Surface Reduction for Windows

10. Chapter 8: Managing Additional Capabilities for Windows

11. Chapter 9: Onboarding and Managing macOS

12. Chapter 10: Onboarding and Managing Linux Servers

13. Chapter 11: Onboarding and Managing iOS and Android

14. Part 3: Microsoft Defender for Identity

15. Chapter 12: Deploying Microsoft Defender for Identity

16. Chapter 13: Managing Defender for Identity

17. Part 4: Microsoft Defender for Office 365

18. Chapter 14: Deploying Exchange Online Protection

19. Chapter 15: Deploying Defender for Office 365

20. Part 5: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

21. Chapter 16: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

22. Part 6: Proactive Security and Incident Response

23. Chapter 17: Maintaining Security Hygiene and Threat Awareness

24. Chapter 18: Extended Detection and Response with Microsoft 365 Defender

25. Chapter 19: Advanced Hunting with KQL

26. Chapter 20: Microsoft Sentinel Integration

27. Chapter 21: Understanding Microsoft 365 Defender APIs

28. Part 7: Glossary and Answers

29. Chapter 22: Glossary

30. Chapter 23: Answers

31. Index

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

The direction of travel is clear: apps and services and moving to the cloud. This can be seen in the widespread adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Slack, and Google Workplace, and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and IaaS clouds such as Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The great thing about these cloud services is they allow individuals and organizations to remain productive regardless of where they are and usually regardless of what device they are using. The challenge this imposes is securing it. If I can’t get my hands on the infrastructure or backend of a service, how can I trust, monitor, and secure it? The same question continues for users accessing our apps and services on devices we don’t manage, such as bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scenarios or external guest users.

MDA is a cloud access security broker (CASB) that can be leveraged to tackle these challenges.

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