Chapter 13: Security Monitoring and Reporting

In this chapter, we will review the methods that are used for reporting and monitoring endpoints within the environment. Throughout this book, we've provided recommendations that help secure and harden Windows environments by enforcing baselines and security controls. After these controls are in place, proper monitoring should be established to ensure application availability, storage alerting, track assets and inventory, and identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the underlying software and operating systems. Many products are available that can help provide these insights, so let's review where they can be found based on the solutions we've discussed throughout this book.

First, we will review the features of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE). We will cover the MDE dashboards that are used to report on threats, inventory software, and identify weaknesses in the software and configurations on your endpoints. We...