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Implementing and Managing Microsoft Defender for Identity

by Rishalin Pillay

This course teaches you how to protect your identities by implementing and managing Defender for Identity. You'll gain the skills and knowledge needed to successfully plan, implement, and manage protections for your identities in Active Directory.

What you'll learn

Today an identity is more valuable than a password. Cyberattacks thrive on being able to compromise an identity as the access granted to identities far exceeds those that can be obtained by a single password. In this course, Implementing and Managing Microsoft Defender for Identity, you’ll learn how to successfully implement and manage identity protections using Defender for Identity. First, you’ll explore how to properly plan and deploy Defender for Identity. Next, you’ll focus on managing the various configurations for the solution. Finally, you'll gain insight into the types of identity attacks that the solution is able to highlight, thereby helping you easily identify these attacks and take action. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills needed to fully implement and manage Microsoft Defender for Identity.

About the author

Rishalin is a prolific author and cybersecurity expert. He has authored several video courses on Pluralsight, as well as three books: "Learn Penetration Testing", "Offensive Shellcode from Scratch." and "Ethical Hacking Workshop". He is also a technical contributor to many other books on topics such as dark web analysis, Kali Linux, offensive security, and SECOPS. He has received the Microsoft Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions to the cybersecurity industry. Rishal... more

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