Preparing my Application Guard for Office test lab

Hello everyone, today I wanted to see application guard for office in action. If you are not familiar with application guard for office, I suggest you read the following articles / documentation. Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office Application Guard Read More …

Managing Time Zone and Date formats in Microsoft Defender Security Center

When you receive security alerts or are investigating security related events , the aspect of time is important element. By default, date and time is displayed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) within the Microsoft Defender security center portal. In todays’ Read More …

Advance your Microsoft Defender ATP hunting skills using the Atomic execution framework

Hello everyone, during the past months I took a closer look at MITRE ATT&CK to advance my hunting skills using Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection. For those not familiar with MITRE ATT&CK, in short, it is a knowledge base knowledge 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 …

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 …