Operating system specifics and prerequisites

To ensure a smooth onboarding experience, it pays to ensure prerequisites have been met before attempting a large-scale rollout. That said, there are some common pitfalls to avoid in this area, often driven by older operating systems and non-Windows machines requiring a different approach. Let’s look at what some of those are.

Understanding monitoring agents

At the end of 2020, as a reaction to a spike in human-operated ransomware incidents across many organizations, from health care to (local) government during a global pandemic, Microsoft set out to create a completely revamped version of the MDE product for Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016. The intent was to shore up defenses and offer a level of parity, including advanced tamper protection and response capabilities, against increasingly common ransomware tactics and techniques.

Aside from offering a solution stack that was no longer just detection, but a greatly improved...