Mastering security administration with Microsoft 365 Defender Training

• An understanding of core technical concepts, including DNS, Networking, Identities, and software deployment methods
• An understanding of common security threats and attacks such as malware, phishing, ransomware and software exploits
• Experience with Microsoft 365 components including Azure Active Directory, Exchange, Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint
• Experience with managing Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy and Windows clients

Instructors will demonstrate features throughout the event. Optional Lab exercises are available for students to complete within a free commercial Microsoft 365 tenancy provided free of charge for each student by QA. This tenancy lasts for 30 days but can be extended free of charge for another 30 days.

• How to license the services and navigate the Microsoft 365 Defender portal
• How to configure Defender for Office 365 capabilities to protect messaging and collaboration services against threats such as malware or phishing
• How to deploy Defender for Endpoint to devices, and protect them against threats such as malware, ransomware and software exploits
• How to deploy Defender for Identity to an on-premises Active Directory to protect it from threats against identities, such as stealing credentials and gaining admin control of the domain
• How to implement threat detection policies in Defender for Cloud Apps to provide alerts on unusual application behaviours which are often indicators of an attack
• How to investigate security incidents using the Microsoft 365 Defender portal and use remediation actions to block the attack
• Course outline

• Zero Trust model
• MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Example attack chain

• Services overview
• License requirements
• Administration
• Microsoft Secure Score

• Protection against known threats
• Email authentication to prevent spoofing
• Protection against unknown threats

• Policies and recommended settings
• Managing the quarantine
• Advanced delivery policies

• Types of simulation
• Create and run a simulation

• Capabilities
• Defender Vulnerability Management

• General settings
• Permissions
• Onboarding

• Next-generation protection
• Attack surface reduction

• Creating the service accounts
• Installing the sensor
• Entity tags

• Assessments
• Securing accounts
• Securing authentication protocols

• Connecting to Office 365
• Cloud Discovery
• Admin roles

• Importing user groups
• Creating policies

• Managing incidents
• Remediate
• Automated investigation and response

• Creating queries
• Kusto query language (KQL)