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Meet the new Microsoft Defender ATP evaluation lab

Sun, 24 May 2020 14:23:52 +0000

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 that the lab is only intended for new customers hat are in the process of evaluating Microsoft Defender ATP, but that’s not the case, personally I think that it is also a perfect playground for existing customers to advance their investigation and hunting skills using Microsoft Defender ATP.

How to accelerate your Microsoft Defender ATP Evaluation

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:09:12 +0000

As with almost any solution, one of the time consuming activities is to get the prerequisites in place until you get things up and running, this is no different with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection. Although the solution itself is entirely hosted in the cloud, there are a few prerequisites on the client side that must be put in place before you can get your hands on MDATP. Getting these prerequisites in place is no rocket science but depending on the organization, even getting a few Windows 10 test clients prepared and a few service URLs approved to go through the firewall/proxy can trigger a lot of internal processes that must be reviewed, approved and executed. Going through such processes makes perfect sense when conducting a proof of concept / pilot or production deployment within an organizations production environment, but what if you have little time and just want to get an idea of how Microsoft Defender ATP works and want to see it in action?

Getting access to Windows 7 Evaluation installation sources

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:13:08 +0000

Most IT pro’s probably don’t have a problem in getting access to the Windows 7 operating system installation sources because they can access them through their corporate volume license agreement and/or MSDN or TechNet subscription. But unfortunately there are still some out there who do not have such easy access to these sources.

For the use of Windows 7 on a primary device (the one that one uses on a daily basis) an official version of Windows 7 that comes either from the Corporate Volume media source or a separately acquired copy or pre-installed with a new computer must be used.