Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the different types of detection mechanisms and the advantages of using them to enhance your defense strategy. You learned about the indicators of compromise and how to query current threats. You also learned about IDS, how it works, the different types of IDS, and the best location to install your IDS based on your network. Next, you learned about the benefits of using an IPS, and how rule-based and anomaly-based detection works. An effective defense strategy wouldn’t be complete without good behavior analytics and, in this section, you learned how the Blue Team can benefit from this capability. Microsoft Sentinel was used to demonstrate behavior analytics, and Microsoft Defender was used as the hybrid solution for behavior analytics.

In the next chapter, we will continue talking about defense strategies; this time, you will learn more about threat intelligence and how the Blue Team can take advantage of threat intel to enhance...