Microsoft Threat Protection – Using advanced hunting to see what’s going on with your mail

Last December Microsoft introduced Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) including advanced hunting that allows us to run queries across multiple data sources i.e. Microsoft Defender ATP and Office 365 ATP. If you haven’t heard yet about MTP I recommend reading Christian Read More …

PowerShell 7 – Group Policy Settings and Eventlogs

On December 16th Joey announced the availability of the PowerShell 7.0 release candidate. Time to look at the configuration options. Since I’m interested in the aspects of managing these settings within an enterprise environment, I closely followed the discussions on Read More …

How to generate a monthly Defender ATP Threat and Vulnerability Report

Update 11 January 2020 – Microsoft has updated the Advanced Hunting Schema, so ComputerName is now DeviceName in the queries. Just recently Microsoft announced that the Defender ATP advanced hunting schema was extended with the following tables: DeviceTvmSoftwareInventoryVulnerabilities DeviceTvmSoftwareVulnerabilitiesKB DeviceTvmSecureConfigurationAssessment 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 …

Microsoft Defender ATP Advanced Hunting – Who’s logging on with local admin rights?

Note: I have updated the kql queries below, but the screenshots itself still refer to the previous (old) schema names If you’re among those administrators that use Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, here’s a handy tip how to find out 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 …