Defender for Endpoint – unified solution for Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 (Part1)

Hello everyone, Just in case you missed this, earlier in October, Microsoft announced the public preview for the Microsoft Defender for endpoint, unified solution for Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 that enables additional protection features and brings a high Read More …

Detect Audit Policy Modifications with Microsoft 365 Defender

Hello there, In today’s blog post I want to share with you an advanced hunting query to detect audit policy modifications using Microsoft Defender 365 advanced hunting. Following the MITRE ATT&CK framework this would be T1484.001 Domain Policy Modification: Group Read More …

How to remediate Defender for Endpoint onboarding with ConfigMgr

During the past 5 years I have onboarded a couple of thousand devices into Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and can say that, provided that you done your homework with regards to network connectivity, onboarding devices into Defender for Endpoint usually Read More …

Deploying Defender ASR – Block persistence through WMI event subscription

Last week Microsoft released the DRAFT Security baseline for Windows 10 and Windows Server, version 20H2. Although available since Windows 10 1903, the attack surface reduction rule ‘Block persistence through WMI event subscription’ is now being included into the recommended Read More …

Windows Defender, More than just Antivirus – Part 2

In the previous post I provided an overview of the history of Windows Defender and an overview of the various features that have the name Windows Defender in them. When then looked at Windows Defender SmartScreen and Windows Defender Cloud Read More …

Windows Defender, More than just Antivirus – Part 1

Due to my professional activity as a Cyber Security Consultant, I regularly speak with customers about Windows Defender and find that many are not fully aware of all the features and capabilities that Windows Defender offers. Also, when reviewing existing Read More …