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Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241708
Pages 572 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Ru Campbell Ru Campbell
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Viktor Hedberg Viktor Hedberg
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Table of Contents (33) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Cyber Threats and Microsoft 365 Defender
2. Chapter 1: Microsoft and Modern Cybersecurity Threats 3. Chapter 2: Microsoft 365 Defender: The Big Picture 4. Part 2: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
5. Chapter 3: The Fundamentals of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 6. Chapter 4: Onboarding Windows Clients and Servers 7. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Microsoft Defender Antivirus for Windows 8. Chapter 6: Advanced Microsoft Defender Antivirus for Windows 9. Chapter 7: Managing Attack Surface Reduction for Windows 10. Chapter 8: Managing Additional Capabilities for Windows 11. Chapter 9: Onboarding and Managing macOS 12. Chapter 10: Onboarding and Managing Linux Servers 13. Chapter 11: Onboarding and Managing iOS and Android 14. Part 3: Microsoft Defender for Identity
15. Chapter 12: Deploying Microsoft Defender for Identity 16. Chapter 13: Managing Defender for Identity 17. Part 4: Microsoft Defender for Office 365
18. Chapter 14: Deploying Exchange Online Protection 19. Chapter 15: Deploying Defender for Office 365 20. Part 5: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
21. Chapter 16: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps 22. Part 6: Proactive Security and Incident Response
23. Chapter 17: Maintaining Security Hygiene and Threat Awareness 24. Chapter 18: Extended Detection and Response with Microsoft 365 Defender 25. Chapter 19: Advanced Hunting with KQL 26. Chapter 20: Microsoft Sentinel Integration 27. Chapter 21: Understanding Microsoft 365 Defender APIs 28. Part 7: Glossary and Answers
29. Chapter 22: Glossary
30. Chapter 23: Answers 31. Index 32. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring MDA settings

As with most security services, in MDA, we must tweak several settings to get things tuned to our specific environment. General settings for MDA can be found by going to Microsoft 365 Defender portal | Settings | Cloud apps:

Figure 16.2 – MDA settings in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal

Figure 16.2 – MDA settings in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal

For now, we’re going to look at the settings in the System and Information Protection categories. We’ll look at the other categories throughout this chapter.

Customizing system settings

There are several changes you should make to improve defaults in the Cloud Apps settings page you just navigated to. Let’s check them out!

Starting in Organization details, you can customize the environment to your organization by changing the organization’s display name and environment name, as well as uploading a logo (limited to a rather small 150 x 50 pixels). You’ll also see a list of Managed domains, which MDA...

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