In spring 2019 I have written a post on how you can hack yourself to better understand the Microsoft Tools that help you defend modern attacks. Since then, several month and one MS Ignite have been past, in other words: things have changed.
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Sometimes isolating or blocking user actions (like downloads) is too restrictive – instead you just want to warn or ‘educate’ him. At the same time, I don’t know too many ITpros that enjoy talking to their end-users (I think we all should, but this is another story). Today we will look into a flow-automation of Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP) alerts.
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Whenever I talk to customers about Office ATP Safe Attachments, they immediately ask me, what exactly it does protect us from. I thought it’s time to do some tests and clarify that.
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In the past, we could consume the MDATP API ‘on demand’ (pull) by PowerShell for example.
We could even do advanced hunting queries via the API.
However, pulling the data out of MDATP might bring in some delay in one or the other scenario and the information from the advanced hunting results are limited to the last 30 days.
With the brand new ‘Streaming API’, Microsoft is offering a new approach to make data from MDATP available outside of the portal.
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So, here we go. As announced last Ignite conference in 2018, Microsoft customers can live without passwords now. After phone sign-in and Hello of course, we now have Security Key support, which means you can now sign in to your Windows 10 AAD joined device by the use of those little friends here:
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The new Unifed Identity SecOps Experience brings together information from Azure ATP, Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) and Azure AD Identity Protection.
In this blog post, we will look into the new UI and evaluate which value it has. However – as always-, I am trying to add a little ‘spice’ and therefore we will build in some Mimikatz action. Be exicted :-).
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While talking about the protection mechanisms in modern cloud environments, one tends to forget the other side.
You must know your enemy in order to fight him successfully. Today we will build a lab to attack a modern Microsoft cloud environment that is protected by the brightest star on Microsoft’s security sky: Microsoft Defender ATP*.
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