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This three-day instructor led course will provide delegates with the knowledge and skills to deploy and administer Microsoft 365 Defender to protect against cyber threats. Delegates will learn how to configure security across messaging and collaboration tools, devices, identities and applications. They will also learn how to use the service to detect possible ongoing attacks and block them.

This course was designed for people who work in a security administrator job role or a general purpose administrator role with a responsibility to ensure that their Microsoft 365 environment is secure.

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

LP1 - Overview of Microsoft 365 Defender

Cyber security attacks

Zero Trust model
MITRE ATT&CK framework
Example attack chain

Microsoft 365 Defender services

Services overview
License requirements
Administration
Microsoft Secure Score

Labs

Review

LP2 - Configuring Defender for Office 365

Threats and protection

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

Defender for Office 365 policies

Policies and recommended settings
Managing the quarantine
Advanced delivery policies

Attack simulation training

Types of simulation
Create and run a simulation

Labs

Review

LP3 - Deploying and configuring Defender for Endpoint

Exploring the service

Capabilities
Defender Vulnerability Management

Deployment

General settings
Permissions
Onboarding

Evaluation lab

Protecting endpoints

Next-generation protection
Attack surface reduction

Labs

Review

LP4 - Deploying Defender for Identity

Deploying the sensor

Creating the service accounts
Installing the sensor
Entity tags

Identity security posture

Assessments
Securing accounts
Securing authentication protocols

Lab

Review

LP5 - Configuring Defender for Cloud Apps

Connecting to apps and logs

Connecting to Office 365
Cloud Discovery
Admin roles

Threat detection policies

Importing user groups
Creating policies

Labs

Review

LP6 - Investigating and responding to threats

Responding to incidents

Managing incidents
Remediate
Automated investigation and response

Advanced hunting

Creating queries
Kusto query language (KQL)

Labs

Review

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Mastering security administration with Microsoft 365 Defender Training in Finland

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