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 …

Meet the new Microsoft Defender ATP evaluation lab

This week Hadar Feldmann, senior program manager and security researcher at Microsoft announced the public preview of the new Microsoft Defender ATP evaluation lab that now includes two attack simulation solutions from AttackIQ and SafeBreach. The term ‘evaluation’ might indicate 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 …