Microsoft Defender XDR: Identity and Email Protection
UCSECA2
1 days
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Identity Based Attack Types
Identities face key security challenges such as weak or reused credentials, and poor enforcement of least privilege principles. Misconfigured roles, lack of multi-factor authentication, and dormant accounts further increase the risk of unauthorized access.
- Kerberos Attack Types
- Credential Harvesting
- Password Spray
- Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack
- Credential and Token Theft Techniques
Microsoft Entra: Securing Your Cloud Identities
The first thing you should protect are your identities. Especially in a cloud infrastructure, this should be your number one priority. Microsoft Entra ID provides a lot of security related features to control access to your environment.
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Password-less Authentication
- Identity Protection
- LAB: Securing Your Identities
Microsoft Defender for Identity: Securing Your Onprem Identities
If your identities are hosted on-premises, Microsoft Defender for Identity can provide protection for your Active Directory accounts.
- Microsoft Defender for Identity Features
- Configuring Defender for Identity
- Protecting Your Accounts
- Identify Threats: Reconnaissance and Lateral Movement
- Detect Pass-the-Hash and Pass-the-Ticket Attacks
- LAB: Microsoft Defender for Identity
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Safeguard your organization against malicious threats from email messages, links and collaboration tools. Implement policies to detect malware, spam and phishing mails. Define what action to take when malicious content is detected.
- Protect Against Malware, Spam, Phishing, Spoofing
- Email Authentication: SPF, DKIM and DMARC
- Attack Simulator
- Safe Attachments and Safe Links
- Threat Protection for Collaboration: SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams
- LAB: Microsoft Defender for Office 365
In today’s modern workplace, identities have become the new security perimeter — and a prime target for threat actors.
Protecting them is essential. Microsoft solutions like Entra ID and Defender for Identity provide powerful tools to
detect, prevent, and respond to identity-based threats across both cloud and on-premises environments.
But identities aren’t the only target.
Email remains one of the most widely exploited attack surfaces, with spam, phishing, and spoofing attempts constantly evolving.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 adds an essential layer of protection, using advanced threat detection and automated response to help keep your users and communication channels secure.
This course is intended for system administrators and security specialists responsible for securing and analyzing the cloud IT environment.
