Threat Hunting with MTP: The Sixth Sense
Let’s assume you just learned about this new vulnerability in in VLC. Attackers can exploit it by sending .mkv files to your users via Email. Pretty easy – pretty dangerous.
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Go, hack yourself! – Ignite 2019 Edition
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.
Read moreMDATP: talking to the User
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.
Read moreMicrosoft Defender ATP Streaming API
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.
Read moreThe New Unified Identity SecOps Experience
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 :-).
Read moreGo, hack yourself!
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*.
Read moreOffice ATP P2
Since the beginning of February 2019, Microsoft is dividing Office ATP features into P1 and P2. Everything that was called “Threat Intelligence” before goes now into Office ATP P2. In this article, I give a brief overview of Office ATP P1 and P2 features and go deep into an exciting P2 feature called “Attack Simulator”.
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