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Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender
Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender

Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender: Implement Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, and Office 365 and respond to threats

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Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender

Microsoft and Modern Cybersecurity Threats

It’s useful to understand the state of cybersecurity as a backdrop when beginning or continuing any journey with Microsoft 365 Defender, which this book will help you master as a defender. The threats that organizations face continue to change across all industries and scales. The threats are considerably different from those experienced as long ago as the beginning of Windows’ mass adoption by the workplace, or even 5 or 10 years ago, far into IT maturity in many organizations. Nowadays, attackers’ budgets, capabilities, and demands outstrip those of a time when a conventional anti-virus and gateway firewall was all you had to consider.

Now we live in an era where the workforce has left the confines of the office or VPN; where data has jumped from your data center to someone else’s; and where hybrid identities unleash access to organizations’ apps anywhere, on any device, including that one constant across eras: email.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following topics:

  • The cybersecurity threat landscape
  • The cyber kill chain and MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK)
  • Microsoft and Zero Trust

What you learn in this chapter will paint the background of modern threats facing organizations’ IT, including the cyber-attack kill chain that Microsoft 365 Defender can be used to protect against and respond to.

It is impossible to avoid the elephant in the room: Microsoft security software.

Just as threats have changed, so has the biggest dog in the yard (and, incidentally, the company that created the yard where many of those security problems occur). Microsoft invests billions of dollars per year into security services, research, and development. The Defender of Windows XP and Vista is not the Defender of this era. We’ll conclude the chapter with what this translates to in terms of winning back your trust in the Defender brand and, no pun intended, the Zero Trust strategy that Microsoft advocates.

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Key benefits

  • Help in understanding Microsoft 365 Defender and how it is crucial for security operations
  • Implementation of the proactive security defense capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Office 365, and Cloud Apps so that attacks can be stopped before they start
  • A guide to hunting and responding to threats using M365D’s extended detection and response capabilities

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This book will help you get up and running with Microsoft 365 Defender and help you use the whole suite effectively. You’ll start with a quick overview of cybersecurity risks that modern organizations face, such as ransomware and APT attacks, how Microsoft is making massive investments in security today, and gain an understanding of how to deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by diving deep into configurations and their architecture. As you progress, you’ll learn how to configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus, and onboard and manage macOS, Android, and Linux MDE devices for effective solutions. You’ll also learn how to deploy Microsoft Defender for Identity and explore its different deployment methods that can protect your hybrid identity platform, as well as how to configure Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Cloud Apps, and manage KQL queries for advanced hunting with ease. Toward the end, you’ll find out how M365D can be integrated with Sentinel and how to use APIs for incident response. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of Microsoft 365 Defender, and how to protect and respond to security threats.

Who is this book for?

You’re a security engineer, incident responder, blue teamer, or an IT security professional who wants to deploy and manage Microsoft 365 Defender services and successfully investigate and respond tocyber threats You have a basic understanding of networking, vulnerabilities, operating systems, email, Active Directory, and cloud apps

What you will learn

  • Understand the Threat Landscape for enterprises
  • Effectively implement end-point security
  • Manage identity and access management using Microsoft 365 defender
  • Protect the productivity suite with Microsoft Defender for Office 365
  • Hunting for threats using Microsoft 365 Defender
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Table of Contents

32 Chapters
Part 1: Cyber Threats and Microsoft 365 Defender Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Microsoft and Modern Cybersecurity Threats Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Microsoft 365 Defender: The Big Picture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: The Fundamentals of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Onboarding Windows Clients and Servers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Getting Started with Microsoft Defender Antivirus for Windows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Advanced Microsoft Defender Antivirus for Windows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Managing Attack Surface Reduction for Windows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Managing Additional Capabilities for Windows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Onboarding and Managing macOS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Onboarding and Managing Linux Servers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Onboarding and Managing iOS and Android Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Microsoft Defender for Identity Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Deploying Microsoft Defender for Identity Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: Managing Defender for Identity Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 4: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 14: Deploying Exchange Online Protection Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 15: Deploying Defender for Office 365 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 5: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 16: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 6: Proactive Security and Incident Response Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 17: Maintaining Security Hygiene and Threat Awareness Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 18: Extended Detection and Response with Microsoft 365 Defender Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 19: Advanced Hunting with KQL Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 20: Microsoft Sentinel Integration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 21: Understanding Microsoft 365 Defender APIs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 7: Glossary and Answers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 22: Glossary Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 23: Answers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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When the authors state that it excludes fluff, they mean it. This book is truly amazing. New or seasoned, engineers, architects or sales folks must make this a read. I work on every platform what the book covers and it is the most accurate best practice to book I’ve read thus far. Make this a mandatory read for you and your teams, it gets you going out the gate!
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Disclaimer wanted to learn the different products within the MS 365 suite of tools and luckily got one evaluation copy, too.This book organically moves from the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE framework to the MS 365 offerings. There is one chapter that has the summary of all the tools from MS 365 and then each tool has its own separate chapter, too.Overall, a great book for both technical and people at the leadership level who want to learn the different products within MS 365.
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Whether you're new to this product or need to fill some gaps, this book is worth the buy. Very informative and well written.
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