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Implementing and Managing Microsoft Defender XDR

6 Courses
8 Hours
Skill IQ

This path serves as the essential administrator’s guide to Microsoft Defender. You’ll learn how to implement and manage Microsoft’s various Defender products including Defender for Identity, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for O365, Defender for Cloud Apps, and lastly some instruction on Microsoft Sentinel.

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Implementing and Managing Microsoft Defender

This path serves as the essential administrator’s guide to Microsoft Defender. You’ll learn how to implement and manage Microsoft’s various Defender products including Defender for Identity, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for O365, Defender for Cloud Apps, and lastly some instruction on Microsoft Sentinel.

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What You'll Learn
  • Plan and Deploy Defender for Identity
  • Managing Defender for Identity
  • Understanding Defender for Identity Activities and Alerts
  • Planning and Deploying Defender for Endpoint
  • Protecting Endpoints with Defender for Endpoint
  • High level overview of the types of threats
  • Deploying Defender for O365 (Encompassing protections in Teams, Onedrive, Sharpoint where possible)
  • Testing defence with Defender for O365
  • Overview of alerts
  • Deploying Defender for Cloud apps
  • Performing Cloud Discovery
  • Working with Information Protection and Controls
  • Overview of Threats
  • Architecting Microsoft Sentinel
  • Managing Microsoft Sentinel
  • Monitoring Sentinel
Prerequisites
  • You should be familiar with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Security basics.
Related topics
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Teams
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