Security operations with MDE
The M365 Defender portal is a combined web-based interface that contains the various solutions in the Microsoft Defender security stack. This is where most security operations teams will spend their time investigating and monitoring threats that affect your endpoints across the application, identity, endpoint, and data domains. Using the available dashboards and built-in incident management system, the SOC can analyze threats, respond to security-related incidents, and perform real-time remediations. From the Overview page, they can quickly jump between domains, depending on where their investigations take them, making it easier to follow the threat should it perambulate across different domains. A few examples of the actions a SOC analyst can take in the M365 Defender portal include the following:
- Configure threat policies through Email & collaboration that control the actions to protect users from phishing, spam, and malware delivered through...