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Defend against cyberthreats with Microsoft Defender XDR (SC-5004)

1 day
Microsoft SecurityAzureCybersecurity

Learn to manage incidents, alerts, and endpoint investigations with Microsoft Defender XDR and Defender for Endpoint, including Advanced Hunting with KQL.

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Course Overview

This course teaches you how to implement and use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint within Microsoft Defender XDR to manage devices, investigate endpoints, and manage incidents and alerts. You will also use Advanced Hunting with Kusto Query Language (KQL) to detect and investigate unique threats.

Course Benefits

  • Use the Microsoft Defender portal to manage and investigate incidents and alerts
  • Configure and deploy a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment, including onboarding devices and access controls
  • Configure alerting, detections, indicators, and alert suppression
  • Set up and manage automation, including automated investigation and remediation
  • Perform device investigations using inventory, device discovery, and behavioral blocking
  • Use Advanced Hunting with KQL and analyze Secure Score, threat analytics, and reports

Delivery Methods

Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.

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Course Outline

  1. Mitigate incidents using Microsoft Defender
    • Use the Microsoft Defender portal
    • Manage incidents
    • Investigate incidents
    • Manage and investigate alerts
    • Manage automated investigations
    • Use the action center
    • Explore advanced hunting
    • Investigate Microsoft Entra sign-in logs
    • Understand Microsoft Secure Score
    • Analyze threat analytics
    • Analyze reports
    • Configure the Microsoft Defender portal
  2. Deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment
    • Create your environment
    • Understand operating systems compatibility and features
    • Onboard devices
    • Manage access
    • Create and manage roles for role-based access control
    • Configure device groups
    • Configure environment advanced features
  3. Configure for alerts and detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    • Configure advanced features
    • Configure alert notifications
    • Manage alert suppression
    • Manage indicators
  4. Configure and manage automation using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    • Configure advanced features
    • Manage automation upload and folder settings
    • Configure automated investigation and remediation capabilities
    • Block at risk devices
  5. Perform device investigations in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    • Use the device inventory list
    • Investigate the device
    • Use behavioral blocking
    • Detect devices with device discovery
  6. Defend against cyberthreats with Microsoft Defender XDR lab exercises
    • Configure the Microsoft Defender XDR environment
    • Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    • Mitigate attacks with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Microsoft Security class:

  • Experience using the Microsoft Defender portal

Experience in the following would be useful for this Microsoft Security class:

  • Basic understanding of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Basic understanding of Microsoft Sentinel
  • Experience using Kusto Query Language (KQL) in Microsoft Sentinel

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