MDI concepts

In the next few sections of this chapter, we're going to talk through a handful of core concepts of MDI, from navigating the portal to understanding some of the different monitored activities and how it uses NNR to learn more about entities.

Having these concepts down will give you the information to understand how MDI works and what it's looking for once installed in your environments. Let's keep it moving and start things off by navigating the portal.

Navigating the portal

First things first, let's head over to the Security.Microsoft.com portal. From the home page, we're going to scroll down to the bottom and on the lower left-hand side, we'll see Settings, as shown in Figure 7.1. Go ahead and click that:

Figure 7.1 – Security portal – Settings location

Important Note

There will be many things in this chapter that you might find confusing to find in your lab. This is because, at the time...