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SaaS security posture management (SSPM) 

March 21, 2023 Season 3 Episode 6

Join us as we learn about Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps SSPM. David Mallett simplifies the initial deployment of this security feature, guides us through the integration of SaaS security and cloud access security brokers, and even explains how to avoid misconfigurations. Tune in to this episode as we learn why security posture is crucial for any organization. 

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David Mallet

David Mallet

Microsoft

Mobile Threat Defense

March 20, 2023 Season 3 Episode 5

Product expert, Yuji Aoki, shares key threat defense capabilities within Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for iOS and Android. From a complete onboarding walkthrough to a live demo to showcase the user experience, don’t miss these insights on how to best protect your mobile devices.

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Yuji Aoki

Yuji Aoki

Microsoft

Defender Experts for Hunting Overview

March 16, 2023 Season 3 Episode 4

Learn about Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting—a service that proactively looks for threats 24/7/365, prioritizing significant threats and improving your SOC’s overall responsiveness. Join the conversation, where product experts Steve Lee and Elisa Lippincott discuss the Defender Experts for Hunting service and other essential threat-hunting capabilities. 

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Elisa Lippincott

Elisa Lippincott

Microsoft

Steve Lee

Steve Lee

Microsoft

Microsoft Sentinel integration

March 14, 2023 Season 3 Episode 3

Together with Sentinel in the Field host Javier Soriano, we provide an overview of Microsoft Sentinel and discuss the integration points within Microsoft 365 Defender, showcasing bidirectional synchronization of incidents, demonstrating how to stream advanced hunting tables to Microsoft Sentinel, and examining remediation playbooks for Microsoft 365 Defender. 

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Javier Soriano

Javier Soriano

Microsoft

Mastering Email Authentication and Slashing Overrides Part 2

March 9, 2023 Season 3 Episode 2

Dive deeper into Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to better understand the complexities behind false-positives and false-negatives in email. Part 2 of this series outlines practices you can put in place now to prevent malicious, spam, or phishing emails in your environment.  

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Paul Newell

Paul Newell

Microsoft

Mastering Email Authentication and Slashing Overrides Part 1

March 7, 2023 Season 3 Episode 1

Paul Newell shares the importance of using Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to implement email authentication practices. Find out how poor practices can cause false-positives, how overrides can cause false-negatives, and how standards can affect your organization’s incoming email. 

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Paul Newell

Paul Newell

Microsoft

Microsoft 365 Defender MVP special

December 21, 2022Season 2Episode 9

In this special episode, Heike and colleagues talk with two of our MVPs to discuss their experience as MVPs. They’ll even share tips and tricks so that you can become an MVP, too! This episode is the perfect way to round out the year.

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Katie Ryckman

Microsoft

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Ben Harris

Microsoft

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Urja Gandhi

Microsoft

Enterprise IoT overview

December 14, 2022Season 2Episode 8

Discover how Microsoft Defender for IoT can help enterprises monitor assets and risks across their entire IoT environment. Join us as our expert, Nimrod Aldaag, talks about the lates product capabilities.

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Nimrod Aldaag

Microsoft

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps deep dive

December 2, 2022Season 2Episode 7

Caroline Lee is back to give you a deeper dive into Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, including capabilities such as information protection, user scoring, Advanced Hunting, and app governance. Don’t miss this one!

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Caroline Lee

Microsoft

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Overview

November 30, 2022Season 2Episode 6

Caroline Lee joins us to give you a guided tour of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Learn how discovery works, dive into connectors, learn to define policies, and more.

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Caroline Lee

Microsoft

Microsoft 365 Defender overview

November 16, 2022Season 2Episode 5

Microsoft 365 Defender is an integrated, cross-domain threat detection and response solution that provides coordinated, automatic defense to block threats before they become attacks. Join us to get to know the components and capabilities of Microsoft 365 Defender.

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Kim Kischel

Microsoft

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux

November 9, 2022Season 2Episode 4

Resident Microsoft Security expert John Nix discusses the end-to-end process for installing, configuring, and managing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on the Linux devices in your enterprise that use.

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John Nix

Microsoft

Spearfishing and phishing defense

November 2, 2022Season 2Episode 3

Discover the best ways to defend your enterprise email against general and targeted phishing attacks in Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

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Ben Harris

Microsoft

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on macOS

October 26, 2022Season 2Episode 2

Security expert and threat hunter Michael Malone describes the installation, configuration, and management of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on macOS devices.

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Michael Melone

Microsoft

Attack simulation training

October 19, 2022Season 2Episode 1

Attack simulation training is an intelligent phish risk reduction tool that empowers employees to prevent attacks, measures their awareness of phishing risks, and provides actionable insights and recommendations that can change their behavior. Learn how to use attack simulation training right in Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

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Brandon Koeller

Microsoft

Threat and vulnerability management

May 23, 2022Season 1Episode 3

Threat and vulnerability management discovers vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on your endpoints and provides actionable insights that help you quickly remediate threats and vulnerabilities in your environment. Learn how you can use the threat and vulnerability management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to improve your organization’s security posture.

Guest:

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas

Microsoft

Get started with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

May 18, 2022Season 1Episode 2

In this episode, we dive into the most common features and scenarios to help get you started fast with your tenant. You get an overview of your control center: the unified Microsoft 365 Defender portal, role-based access control, granting permissions, and the built-in evaluation lab.

Guest:

Dean Pickering

Dean Pickering

Microsoft

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Get to know Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

May 16, 2022Season 1Episode 1

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a comprehensive solution for preventing, detecting, and automating the investigation of and response to threats against endpoints. Join us for this first episode to get to know Microsoft Defender for Endpoint components and capabilities.

Guest:

John Nix

John Nix

Microsoft

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