Summary
This chapter has taught you about the Microsoft 365 Defender capabilities to control your cybersecurity hygiene, become aware of detected weaknesses, and remain up to date with the changing cybersecurity landscape.
To kick off, you learned about Secure Score, which acts as a foundational metric and tool for tracking your posture against Microsoft recommendations. You then learned about MDVM: the different versions of its licensing, its inventory benefits, baseline assessment options, and how its security recommendations can be managed from the first point of review to mitigation and remediation. Finally, we concluded this chapter by introducing Threat Analytics, which you can use to keep in the loop about noteworthy threats.
Everything we covered in this chapter can be described as contributing to your proactive security defenses. The benefit of this is that you can prevent attacks rather than only respond to them. To complete the picture, the next chapter, Extended Detection...
