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  • Strengthening Cyber Defenses Against Modern Threats

    Strengthening Cyber Defenses Against Modern Threats

    In today’s digital age, cyber threats have evolved into sophisticated attacks that exploit vulnerabilities on an unprecedented scale. It’s crucial to understand these threats and take proactive steps to protect your organization. In this article, we explore the evolving landscape of cybercrime and provide actionable measures to safeguard your digital assets. Today, we continue our…

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  • Strengthening Cybersecurity: Protecting Against 99% of Attacks

    Strengthening Cybersecurity: Protecting Against 99% of Attacks

    In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, one undeniable truth stands out—implementing fundamental security hygiene practices can thwart the vast majority of cyberattacks. By adhering to these minimum-security standards, it is possible to protect against over 99 percent of attacks. In this article, we’ll delve into these essential practices and explore how they can fortify your…

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  • Strengthening Cybersecurity: The Power of Collective Defense

    Strengthening Cybersecurity: The Power of Collective Defense

    Cybersecurity stands as one of the paramount challenges facing organizations worldwide. The relentless evolution of cyber threats demands constant vigilance and adaptation. Microsoft, with its unique vantage point in the field, offers valuable insights into this ever-changing landscape to us through their Digital Defense Report. Today, I walk through some top highlights from that report…

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  • Advanced Customization of Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rules

    Advanced Customization of Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rules

    Join me as we walk through creating a custom Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rule using KQL to identify suspicious login patterns based on failed attempts. We will explore the different components of creating these custom rules, what tuning looks like, and creating incidents from the rules.

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  • Responding to Incidents with Microsoft Sentinel – Part 4 – Automate Research

    Responding to Incidents with Microsoft Sentinel – Part 4 – Automate Research

    Today we take a detailed look at building our own Sentinel Playbooks and gathering information on an Incident automatically. Join me as we build automation to update Alerts with detailed IP lookup information as comments. With basic research done automatically, we can save a lot of time!

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  • Responding to Incidents with Microsoft Sentinel – Part 2 – Optimize What You See

    Responding to Incidents with Microsoft Sentinel – Part 2 – Optimize What You See

    Today, we will explore some enhancements to your Microsoft Sentinel environment. I look at optimizing the ticket queue and working to prevent ticket overload. Join me to explore Automation Rules.

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  • Responding to Incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

    Responding to Incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

    Join me to explore next steps once you have investigated an incident. Taking action to respond to the threat in Microsoft Sentinel provides excellent automated response capabilities that can be used to respond to threats in real-time. Let’s explore!

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  • Responding to Threats with Microsoft Sentinel

    Responding to Threats with Microsoft Sentinel

    Knowing where to start with Sentinel Incidents speeds remediation and supports making better decisions. Today, let’s take a look at monitoring and responding to cyber threats using Microsoft Sentinel.

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  • Building Automation Rules with your Sentinel Instance in PowerShell

    Building Automation Rules with your Sentinel Instance in PowerShell

    Today, we explore creating custom Automation Rules in Microsoft Sentinel to help us auto-close low value incidents. Let’s look at how we can automatically close & impact incidents and make it all work using PowerShell!

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  • How to Build Custom Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rules

    How to Build Custom Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rules

    Today, we expand on and explore rapid Microsoft Sentinel deployment using PowerShell. This model of repeatable, consistent, and fast deployments is a great way to help build our own skills up, and build a resilient and robust deployment method we can count on.

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