Guidance for Microsoft Defender for APIs — a Defender for Cloud plan that discovers, prioritizes by risk, and protects APIs published in Azure API Management against threats and abuse. Covers onboarding, security findings, and threat detection. WHEN: Defender for APIs, API threat protection, secure APIs in API…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Business (MDB) — the SMB-segment endpoint security product (≤300 employees), bundled with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and available as a standalone SKU. Covers what's included vs MDE Plan 1/2 (next-gen AV, EDR with simplified configuration, ASR, automated investigation and…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Cloud — AI workload protection (AI-SPM and runtime threat detection for generative AI). Covers AI Security Posture Management (discovery of Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry / Amazon Bedrock / Google Vertex AI resources, identification of grounding data exposure, model deployment…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) — the CASB for SaaS discovery, app governance, session controls, and threat detection. Covers Cloud Discovery via Defender for Endpoint integration, OAuth app governance, Conditional Access App Control (reverse-proxy session policies), and SaaS security posture…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Containers — Kubernetes and container security across AKS, Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, and OpenShift. Covers agentless discovery, agentless vulnerability assessment for images and running containers (powered by Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management), runtime threat…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) — enterprise endpoint security with next-gen AV, EDR, attack surface reduction (ASR), Defender Vulnerability Management, automated investigation and remediation (AIR), and live response. Covers Plan 1 vs Plan 2 selection, onboarding paths (Intune, Configuration…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) — identity threat detection (ITDR) across on-premises Active Directory, AD CS, AD FS, and Entra Connect using sensors. Covers sensor placement, prerequisites, posture assessments, and lateral-movement detection. WHEN: Defender for Identity, MDI, MDI sensors, detect…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for IoT — agentless OT/ICS network detection and response for industrial environments, plus enterprise IoT (EIoT) protection integrated with Defender XDR. Covers OT sensor deployment (physical/virtual, SPAN/TAP), Purdue model alignment, on-premises management console, cloud-managed…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) — protection for email and collaboration (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive) against phishing, malware, spoofing, and business email compromise. Covers Plan 1 vs Plan 2 selection, preset security policies (Standard/Strict), Safe Links, Safe Attachments, anti-phishing…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Servers (Plan 1 and Plan 2) — server-specific protection in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Covers plan selection, agentless vs agent-based scanning, MDE for Servers integration, file integrity monitoring (FIM via MDE), just-in-time VM access, vulnerability assessment, adaptive…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Storage — threat protection for Azure Storage accounts (Blob, Files, Data Lake Gen2). Covers the v2 (per-storage-account) plan, on-upload malware scanning powered by Defender Antivirus, sensitive data threat detection (integrated with Purview classification), activity-based threat…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI) and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management (MDVM) — the threat-and-vulnerability layer of Defender XDR. Covers MDVM exposure score, CVE prioritization with threat insights and active campaigns, security baselines (CIS/STIG), browser-extension and…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender XDR — the unified extended detection and response suite that correlates signals across endpoints, identities, email, and cloud apps into prioritised incidents with attack-graph context. Covers onboarding the four core workloads, incident investigation, advanced hunting in KQL, custom…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra External ID — the unified customer identity and access management (CIAM) and external collaboration platform that replaces Azure AD B2C (for new tenants) and consolidates B2B guest scenarios. Covers external tenant creation, user flows (sign-up/sign-in, password reset), custom branding…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra ID Governance — automating identity lifecycle and access with entitlement management (access packages), access reviews, lifecycle workflows for joiner-mover-leaver, separation of duties, and guest access governance. Covers when to use access packages vs direct group assignment, reviewer…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra ID Protection — risk-based identity security that detects user and sign-in risk and automates remediation. Covers risk detections, risk-based Conditional Access, self-remediation via MFA / secure password change, risky-user investigation, and streaming risk to Sentinel. WHEN: Entra ID…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) — cloud identity and access management and the control plane for Zero Trust. Covers tenant and identity model, authentication methods (passkeys, FIDO2, certificate-based), hybrid identity with Entra Connect or Cloud Sync, app registrations and consent governance…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra Permissions Management (CIEM) — discovers, right-sizes, and monitors permissions across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Covers cloud onboarding, the Permission Creep Index (PCI), generating least-privilege policies from observed activity, on-demand permission grants, and workload…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra Verified ID — verifiable credentials issuance and verification platform based on open standards (W3C Verifiable Credentials, DIDs, OpenID4VC). Covers issuer setup (tenant configuration, DID registration, signing key in Key Vault), credential schema design, rules and display files, issuance…