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Published inAug 2023
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781804611920
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Peter Rising
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Peter Rising

Peter Rising has over 25 years' experience in IT. He has worked for several IT solutions providers and private organizations in a variety of technical and leadership roles, with a focus on Microsoft technologies. Since 2014, Peter has specialized in the Microsoft 365 platform, focusing most recently on security and compliance in his role as a Consulting Services Manager for Insight. Peter is heavily involved in the wider Microsoft community and has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP. He holds several Microsoft certifications, including MCSE: Productivity; Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert; and Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
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Identifying the organizational need for MDI

To identify your organization’s needs in relation to MDI, you first need to examine, in great detail, exactly what MDI is and what it can do. Essentially, MDI is a security solution designed for use in hybrid cloud environments that have a mixture of on-premises and cloud users, data, and resources.

MDI can monitor your on-premises domain controllers to identify and investigate advanced threats and compromised identities by using machine learning and behavioral algorithms to do the following:

  • Identify suspicious activity
  • Detect and identify advanced attacks and malicious activities
  • Protect Azure Active Directory (AD) identities and credentials
  • Provide incident reports

MDI can create behavioral profiles for your users and diligently analyze user activities and events to detect any advanced threats, compromised users, and malicious insiders that could threaten your organization. The information gathered...

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Peter Rising

Peter Rising has over 25 years' experience in IT. He has worked for several IT solutions providers and private organizations in a variety of technical and leadership roles, with a focus on Microsoft technologies. Since 2014, Peter has specialized in the Microsoft 365 platform, focusing most recently on security and compliance in his role as a Consulting Services Manager for Insight. Peter is heavily involved in the wider Microsoft community and has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP. He holds several Microsoft certifications, including MCSE: Productivity; Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert; and Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
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