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Unified RBAC

April 10, 2024 Season 7 Episode 12

Senior Product Manager Gadi Palatchi presents the newly unveiled RBAC model: Microsoft Defender XDR Unified RBAC. Tune in to learn all about the centralized portal which enables administrators to efficiently manage access to Defender data and experiences within the XDR portal, including analysts’ access permissions.  Join the conversation as Microsoft endeavors to transition all customers to this new model by year’s end and your feedback on the user experience is invaluable.

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Guest:

Gadi Palatchi

Gadi Palatchi

Microsoft

Control your copilot for security with custom plug-ins

April 8, 2024 Season 7 Episode 11

In this episode, Principal Product Manager Yaniv Shasha unveils how to tailor and manage your copilot for security through custom plug-ins. Through this conversation, learn the concept of RAG (retrieval augment generative) and its role in copilot for security, discover the architecture and criteria for plug-ins, and understand their use of the automation model. Additionally, we explore distinctions between 1st party and 3rd party plug-ins, alongside an insightful demonstration of a custom plug-in, featuring the GEO IP functionality both before and after its integration.

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Guest:

Yaniv Shasha

Yaniv Shasha

Microsoft

Navigating the threat landscape with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 leadership

April 1, 2024 Season 7 Episode 10

Girish Chander, General Manager of Microsoft Security is with us to dive into critical aspects of Microsoft Defender for Office 365. He covers key topics such as current trends, operational scale, recent updates, and customer protection strategies. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights into the threat landscape, Microsoft’s email security capabilities, and learn practical advice for customer security to help bolster your organization’s defenses. 

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Guest:

Girish Chander

Girish Chander

Microsoft

Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration into Defender XDR

March 27, 2024 Season 7 Episode 9

Join us as we explore the latest announcement regarding the General Availability of Microsoft Defender for Cloud workloads integrated into Defender XDR – enhancing the ability to craft a more complete attack story. Our product experts, Maayan Magenheim and Eran Shitrit guide us through the significant value and additional insights this integration offers to SOC analysts. Together we dive into a detailed demo of the features and functionalities available within the Defender XDR portal and address key questions surrounding the integration, its implications for security operations, and its impact on SOC teams. 

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Guest:

Eran Shitrit

Eran Shitrit

Microsoft

Maayan Magenheim

Maayan Magenheim

Microsoft

Day in the life of a SOC analyst

March 25, 2024 Season 7 Episode 8

We are thrilled to welcome back Michael Melone, principal security researcher and DEX-XDR threat hunter! Join us as he navigates a day in the life of a SOC analyst, discussing overhunting and the detection funnel (based on concepts from Michael’s book, Designing Secure Systems) while highlighting key areas for analyst focus amid various hunting challenges. Tune in for crucial insights into optimizing detection effectiveness. 

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Guest:

Michael Melone

Michael Melone

Microsoft

Stay ahead of threats with proactive security – Part 2

March 20, 2024 Season 7 Episode 7

Our conversation with Shay Amar continues for a deeper dive into specific scenarios concerning exposure management (Xspm). Join us as we witness another insightful demo within the Microsoft Defender XDR portal, highlighting remediation procedures, exposed entities, strategic grouping tactics, connections for a comprehensive understanding of your environment’s capabilities and more.

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Shay Amar

Shay Amar

Microsoft

Stay ahead of threats with proactive security – Part 1

March 18, 2024 Season 7 Episode 6

Stopping cyberattacks at machine speed is crucial, but prevention can be even more powerful. Join this conversation with our expert, Shay Amar, to hear about how the unified security operations platform is expanding with additional proactive security capabilities. Learn how to get visibility across facets of attack surfaces as well as improve and manage your exposure to cyberthreats by consolidating data silos and unifying posture solutions. 

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Guest:

Shay Amar

Shay Amar

Microsoft

Optimizing your SOC’s threat coverage and data value

March 11, 2024 Season 7 Episode 5

Senior Product Manager Michal Schechter is with us to introduce SOC optimization, an exciting new feature designed to offer security operations center (SOC) teams’ valuable recommendations for enhancing their environment. The focus is on data value and threat coverage, with the possibility to expand into other categories in the future. Join us as we unveil compelling topics, including ensuring accurate data ingestion into your security information and event management system, optimizing data ingestion and costs, and ensuring comprehensive coverage against pertinent threats. 

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Guest:

Javier Soriano

Javier Soriano

Microsoft

Michal Shechter

Michal Shechter

Microsoft

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management: New capabilities for risk mitigation and threat protection

March 6, 2024 Season 7 Episode 4

Tune into this episode to hear from expert Ayelet Artzi as she shares the latest advances in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management along with best practices to reduce risk and exposure in your hybrid and multicloud environments. Explore current features and gain valuable perspectives on the future vision for Defender Vulnerability Management and security posture management as a whole.

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Ayelet Artzi

Ayelet Artzi

Microsoft

Powershell

March 4, 2024 Season 7 Episode 3

Miriam Wiesner, security researcher at Microsoft and author of the book PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity: Hacking and Defense for Red and Blue Teamers, joins us to share some of her valuable scripts. You will be among the first to see exclusive content from her book and useful blue team scripts, which you can use with Live Response, for example. 

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New PowerShell module

February 28, 2024 Season 7 Episode 2

Senior Product Manager Martin Schvartzman is with us to introduce the new PowerShell module for Microsoft Defender for Identity. In this episode, we discuss how this tool will make it easier than ever to deploy and configure Defender for Identity at scale and to better protect your organization against identity-based cyber threats.

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Guest:

Martin Schvartzman

Martin Schvartzman

Microsoft

Protect multi-tenant organizations by using Microsoft Defender XDR

February 26, 2024 Season 7 Episode 1

Join our conversation with Product Manager Ofer Schreiber as we dive into the enhanced multitenant capabilities of Microsoft Defender XDR. Together, we learn how Defender XDR for multitenant organizations (MTOs) enables you to safeguard multiple organizations effortlessly from a single pane of glass, driving efficiency and delivering advanced protection for MTOs and managed security service providers.

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Guest:

Ofer Schreiber

Ofer Schreiber

Microsoft

Announcing new capabilities to protect on-premises resources with MFA via Microsoft Entra Private Access

December 20, 2023 Season 6 Episode 11

Our season 6 finale dives into Microsoft Entra Private Access, an identity centric Zero Trust Network Access that secures access to all private applications. Join our discussion with Principal Product Managers Ashish Jain and Navi Beesetti to learn how customers can now extend modern conditional access controls coupled with multifactor authentication, plus single sign-on to all private applications across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments from any device. Additionally, discover how Microsoft Entra Private Access offers additional capabilities such as SSH support and remote access, creating a full VPN replacement.

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Guest:

Ashish Jain

Ashish Jain

Microsoft

Navi Beesetti

Navi Beesetti

Microsoft

Demystifying Defender for IoT

December 18, 2023 Season 6 Episode 10

Senior Product Manager Vishakha Ghosh joins this episode to guide us through Microsoft Defender for IoT. You learn the best practices for securing operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICSs), and you gain insights into how organizations using this innovative solution can build a consolidated security operations center that can effectively handle both OT and IT alerts. Don’t miss out as we break down the silos between these two critical areas of cybersecurity.

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Guest:

Vishakha Ghosh

Vishakha Ghosh

Company

Deception

December 13, 2023 Season 6 Episode 9

We’re diving into another groundbreaking innovation announced at Microsoft Ignite. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has seamlessly integrated deception as a built-in capability, revolutionizing its Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions. Returning guest Senior Product Manager Dean Pickering is with us to explain how deception creates an artificial attack surface and deploys AI-generated decoys and lures to captivate and identify adversaries in the early stages of an attack. Join us to learn about high-confidence detections, automatic threat disruption, and upcoming augmented attack disruption capabilities, all without the need for extra deployment or management efforts.

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Guest:

Dean Pickering

Dean Pickering

Microsoft

Gaining control of SAP applications security and automatic attack disruption

December 11, 2023 Season 6 Episode 8

For this episode, Javier Soriano is back to host and is joined by Principal Group Product Manager Yoav Daniely to explain the significance of SAP systems and applications and the platform’s ability to handle massive volumes of business-critical data hosted in the cloud or on premises. Learn about the dangers of an SAP system breach; dive into the Microsoft offering to protect SAP applications; get the latest product news; and get the latest on new features and demos, including the new capability of Microsoft Defender + Sentinel to disrupt SAP attacks automatically.

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Guest:

Javier Soriano

Javier Soriano

Microsoft

Security Copilot for SOC analysts – boosting efficiency and expertise with Security Copilot in Microsoft Defender XDR

December 6, 2023 Season 6 Episode 7

Returning guest Principal Program Manager Corina Feuerstein highlights the seamless fusion of Microsoft Security Copilot with the Defender XDR platform. Join us for a demo that shines light on the industry-transforming Microsoft Azure OpenAI within Security Copilot, which helps you accelerate investigations to outmaneuver adversaries at scale.

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Guest:

Corina Feuerstein

Corina Feuerstein

Microsoft

Security Copilot overview

December 4, 2023 Season 6 Episode 6

Join us as Product Manager Gabriel Damaschin introduces the capabilities of the highly anticipated Microsoft Security Copilot, driven by cutting-edge generative AI technology. In this episode, we discuss how the extensive capabilities and various applications of this tool enable you to operate at lightning-fast speeds and how Security Copilot extends its valuable support beyond the security operations center.

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Unifying SIEM & XDR: a new era in SecOps

November 29, 2023 Season 6 Episode 5

In this episode—live from Microsoft Ignite—Principal Product Managers Javier Soriano and Tiander Turpijn lead the conversation on the newest unified security operations platform – Microsoft Sentinel & Defender XDR. Learn how this innovation offers you enhanced analyst efficiency by combining security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR), reducing interruptions through consolidation of duplicate features, and enabling proactive attack detection and disruption across Microsoft and non-Microsoft products.

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Guest:

Javier Soriano

Javier Soriano

Microsoft

Tiander Turpijn

Tiander Turpijn

Microsoft

QR Code Phishing Protection

November 27, 2023 Season 6 Episode 4

Join our highly anticipated discussion of the latest advancements in QR code phishing protection. Returning guest and Principal Product Lead Brandon Koeller demonstrates the depth and breadth of security challenges associated with QR codes and the steps required for device protection. Don’t miss this valuable episode on how the Microsoft Defender XDR team is building robust protective measures against evolving attack methods so you can stay vigilant in the face of potential malware attacks. 

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Guest:

Brandon Koeller

Brandon Koeller

Microsoft

Ignite Special

November 20, 2023 Season 6 Episode 3

In this special episode, we’re joined by Senior Director of XDR + SIEM Scott Woodgate as he provides a comprehensive recap of the key announcements and highlights from this year’s Microsoft Ignite. From cutting-edge technology developments to game-changing product releases, we break down the most significant takeaways, ensuring that you’re up to speed with the latest innovations in the Microsoft ecosystem. Join us as we explore how these announcements will shape the future of technology and empower businesses worldwide.

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Guest:

Scott Woodgate

Scott Woodgate

Microsoft

Advanced Hunting & Data visualization in Microsoft 365 Defender

November 8, 2023 Season 6 Episode 2

This episode is about using advanced hunting in Microsoft 365 Defender to transform raw data into insightful visualizations. You will learn the concept of advanced hunting and how to use this powerful feature to track attack surface reduction rules and web protection activities. Kijo Girardi, FastTrack Japan security expert, shares valuable insights into using advanced hunting in practical scenarios to assist security professionals in their daily security operations.

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Guest:

Kijo Girardi

Kijo Girardi

Microsoft

Enhanced phishing protection

November 6, 2023 Season 6 Episode 1

We’re delighted to begin season 6 focused on the latest advancements in phishing protection. Product Manager Sinclaire Hamilton explains how Microsoft Defender SmartScreen protects the credentials used in your organization and how industry-first technology built into the operating system protects password entries in real time.  Learn to configure this enhanced technology, submit feedback on the feature, and see—for the first time—when users in your organization enter unsafe passwords. 

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Guest:

Sinclaire Hamilton

Sinclaire Hamilton

Microsoft

The next evolution of automatic attack disruption

October 12, 2023 Season 5 Episode 6

Our season finale is going in-depth on an innovative, industry-first capability that marks a significant step forward for defenders gaining ground against human-operated attacks. Principal Product Manager Noam Hadash and Principal Security Research Lead Yair Tsarfaty will demo a sophisticated attack being automatically disrupted early in the kill chain and show you how your organization can benefit from this protection that’s only possible with Microsoft 365 Defender.

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Noam Hadash

Noam Hadash

Microsoft

Yair Tsarfaty

Yair Tsarfaty

Microsoft

Improve your security posture with Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR

September 25, 2023 Season 5 Episode 5

This episode is about the Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR managed extended detection and response (MXDR) service. Learn how it brings expertise to your team to triage, investigate, and respond to incidents quickly and improve your security posture. Service Delivery Managers Sebastian Molendijk and Meiko Lopez share how they help customers drive security operations center efficiency and help teams stay ahead of emerging threats with an end-to-end, turnkey experience.

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Guest:

Meiko Lopez

Meiko Lopez

Microsoft

Live response

September 20, 2023 Season 5 Episode 4

We’re on with Product Manager Lior Liberman and Senior Software Engineer Ameer Tabony to discuss the highly anticipated Live response feature. We will define what it is; learn which platforms support it today; and talk scripts, service limitations, and more. Join us as we share a powerful demo showcasing the script library and learn how analysts can use this tool to their advantage.

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Guest:

Ameer Tabony

Ameer Tabony

Microsoft

Lior Liberman

Lior Liberman

Microsoft

Integrating Microsoft 365 Defender with Azure Logic Apps

September 18, 2023 Season 5 Episode 3

A returning guest from season 4, Christos Ventouris, explains the powerful integration of Microsoft 365 Defender with Azure Logic Apps. Learn how these two platforms can automate and optimize your incident response, enhance cybersecurity infrastructure, and improve organizational resilience.

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Guest:

Christos Ventouris

Christos Ventouris

Microsoft

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint configuration management deep dive

September 13, 2023 Season 5 Episode 2

We’re back with Dan Levy for an in-depth explanation of the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint feature updates introduced in our last episode. Join us to understand what happens on a device that is managed using multiple tools and channels, get recommendations for managing permissions between the Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Intune portal, streamline grouping and targeting efforts, and learn how to mitigate unsupported scenarios.

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Dan Levy

Dan Levy

Microsoft

What’s new in the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint configuration management space?

September 11, 2023 Season 5 Episode 1

Join our season 5 opener to catch up on major Microsoft Defender for Endpoint feature updates in public preview. Senior Product Manager Dan Levy presents what’s new in this space, such as endpoint security policies being available in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal; explains how these updates improve the day-to-day activities of security admins.

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Dan Levy

Dan Levy

Microsoft

New Microsoft Teams protection

June 27, 2023 Season 4 Episode 8

Celebrate season 4 with us as we venture into our last episode with Daniel Mozes and Malvika Balaraj. We catch up on the latest Microsoft Teams protection features, understanding how they work and how to use them firsthand through a superb demo. You also get to explore the product roadmap to discover where things are headed when it comes to additional protection in Microsoft Teams.

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Guest:

Daniel Mozes

Daniel Mozes

Microsoft

Malvika Balaraj

Malvika Balaraj

Microsoft

Near-real-time detections in Microsoft 365 Defender

June 22, 2023 Season 4 Episode 7

Learn about Microsoft 365 Defender’s exciting public preview feature – near real-time (NRT) custom detection rules. Senior Product Manager, Christos Ventouris, dives into the value of these detections and how they can be leveraged to allow you to keep up with attackers and mitigate threats as fast as possible.

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Guest:

Christos Ventouris

Christos Ventouris

Microsoft

Simplified SaaS Security deployment with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

June 20, 2023 Season 4 Episode 6

Senior Product Manager Keith Fleming brings you up to speed on the evolution and growth of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Learn about the significance of shifting from the traditional CASB to a SaaS security perspective and get to know the few simple steps it takes to enable Defender for Cloud Apps in your environment.

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Guest:

Keith Fleming

Keith Fleming

Microsoft

Incident response: investigating a ransomware incident Part 2

June 15, 2023 Season 4 Episode 5

Just like that, our mini-series wraps up! Corina is back to provide an epic finale to our ransomware investigation. A continuation of the previous episode, here she shows how to remediate and prevent future ransomware attacks against your organization.

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Guest:

Corina Feuerstein

Corina Feuerstein

Microsoft

Incident response: investigating a ransomware incident Part 1

June 13, 2023 Season 4 Episode 4

Join our first incident response investigation focused on a ransomware attack. Tune into our discussion with Principal Product Manager Corina Feuerstein as she unveils the various components of an attack and the containment measures to take when you have been affected.

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Guest:

Corina Feuerstein

Corina Feuerstein

Microsoft

Incident response: business email compromise

June 8, 2023 Season 4 Episode 3

Principal Security Researcher Pawel Partyka continues our incident response studies as he shares the necessary skills to manage business email compromise incidents like an expert using Microsoft 365 Defender.

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Pawel Partyka

Pawel Partyka

Microsoft

Incident response: malware investigations

June 6, 2023 Season 4 Episode 2

Deepen your incident response knowledge with this episode, focused on malware investigations. DEX-XDR threat hunter and Principal Security Researcher Michael Melone introduces you to the incident response playbook for managing malware incidents effectively.

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Michael Melone

Michael Melone

Microsoft

Incident response: investigation capabilities in Microsoft 365 Defender

June 1, 2023 Season 4 Episode 1

Season 4 begins with our first mini-series, focused on incident response. In this episode, Oren Saban shares how to efficiently pivot through an incident in Microsoft 365 Defender. His demo will equip you with tools to investigate incidents efficiently, focus on affected entities, and defend against threats in your environment.

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Oren Saban

Oren Saban

Microsoft

Identity threat detection and response

March 30, 2023 Season 3 Episode 10

We’re wrapping up season 3 by adding another acronym to your repertoire! Or Tsemah breaks down what identity threat detection and response (ITDR) is and how this tool protects one of our most valuable and difficult-to-protect assets, our identities. Come with us as we dig into the importance of threat detection and response in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, investigate some cyberattacks, and learn how to identify identities that pose threats to your environment. 

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Or Tsemah

Or Tsemah

Microsoft

Attack disruption

March 29, 2023 Season 3 Episode 9

Cyber Security Principal Product Manager Hadar Feldman is with us for a comprehensive walkthrough of the many capabilities in Microsoft 365 Defender that help disrupt attacks. Join us to learn more on how Microsoft 365 Defender automatically detects, disrupts, and defends against attacks. 

Guest:

Hadar Feldman

Hadar Feldman

Microsoft

Get to know the Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Premium Capabilities

March 27, 2023 Season 3 Episode 8

Here we examine the Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management key components alongside security professional, Brandon Lawson. We’re defining several critical assessments, applications, and analyses so you can more confidently understand how to protect and defend your environment.

Guest:

Brandon Lawson

Brandon Lawson

Microsoft

Microsoft Defender for Identity and Defender for Endpoint: Better together

March 23, 2023 Season 3 Episode 7

Led by security professional Daniel Naim, this episode explains the advantages of using Microsoft Defender for Identity and Defender for Endpoint together. Through a demo in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, Daniel highlights how this unified product experience helps customers protect their organization’s identities and improve their overall security posture. 

Guest:

Daniel Naim

Daniel Naim

Microsoft

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. 

Guest:

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.

Guest:

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. 

Guest:

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. 

Guest:

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.  

Guest:

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. 

Guest:

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 profile picture

Katie Ryckman

Microsoft

Ben Harris profile picture

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 profile picture

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 profile picture

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 profile picture

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 profile picture

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 profile picture

Brandon Koeller

Microsoft

Reporting in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Season 1Episode 9

Discover the out-of-the-box reporting capabilities you get with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and learn how they can help you spot trends in your environment. You’ll also learn how to use Power BI and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint rich APIs to extend these capabilities.

Guest:

Jake Mowrer

Jake Mowrer

Microsoft

Microsoft Threat Experts

Season 1Episode 8

Microsoft Threat Experts provide your security operations center with expert-level monitoring, analysis, and support to identify and respond to critical threats in your unique environment. In this episode, we discuss how this service works and how to get started with Experts on Demand.

Guest:

Steve Newby

Steve Newby

Company

Automated investigation and response

Season 1Episode 7

Automated investigation and response uses inspection algorithms to examine alerts, determine whether the threat requires action, and perform necessary remediation actions. Learn how automation handles and resolves alerts, enabling security operations experts to focus on more sophisticated threats and other high-value initiatives.

Guest:

Jesse Esquivel

Jesse Esquivel

Microsoft

The investigation experience

Season 1Episode 6

The incidents queue provides high-level information about each incident and is the starting point for your threat investigations. In this episode, we bring you a deeper look into working with incidents and alerts, the rich machine time line, and various other tools that enhance your investigation experience.

Guest:

Michael Melone

Michael Melone

Microsoft

Next-generation protection

Season 1Episode 5

Microsoft Defender Antivirus is a major component of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This next-generation protection brings together machine learning, big data analysis, in-depth threat resistance research, and the Microsoft cloud infrastructure to protect endpoints in your organization. Learn how Microsoft’s next-generation antivirus help secure your devices.

Guest:

Paul Huijbregts

Paul Huijbregts

Microsoft

Attack surface reduction

Season 1Episode 4

Learn about the features in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that help you eliminate risks by reducing your attack surface—without reducing user productivity. In this session, we show you how attack surface reduction can minimize your organization’s susceptibility to cyber threats and attacks.

Guest:

Jeff Cook

Jeff Cook

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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