Author Archives: Ru Campbell

Five Tactics Towards Achieving Zero Trust with Azure Active Directory

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For any modern enterprise that uses Azure Active Directory (now Microsoft Entra ID) to manage user and service access to cloud resources, it’s hard to escape the term Zero Trust (ZT), which implies that your organization must have a layered approach to security. In this article, you’ll learn about five Microsoft Zero Trust tactics for…

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Understanding Microsoft Information Protection

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There are a lot of compliance-based services across Microsoft 365’s licensing options. At the highest level, a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription for a tenant gives administrators a ton of toys to play with. The naming, marketing, and placement of the capabilities you get can be fuzzy. In this article, we’ll tackle Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), […] Continue reading Understanding Microsoft Information Protection→

Using Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Analytics to Improve Security

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In this article, I’m going to describe how to use Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Analytics to improve security in your organization. Over three Petri articles, we’ve dived into what Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is, how you can migrate to it, and how it should be configured. Part 1: Understanding Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and […] Continue reading Using Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Analytics to Improve Security→

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Important Service and Endpoint Settings You Should Configure Right Now

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is much more than a traditional antivirus service. Now being offered in Plan 1 and Plan 2, the full offering you get with Plan 2 not only provides antivirus capabilities but also extended detection and response, attack surface reduction rules to harden the OS against common threat mechanisms, and threat […] Continue reading Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Important Service and Endpoint Settings You Should Configure Right Now→

How to Install the New Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016

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New protection capabilities for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) customers landed in public preview, Oct 7th 2021, for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016.  With the public preview, Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 gain ‘functional equivalence‘ to Windows Server 2019, thanks to a new agent that is being described as the ‘unified […] Continue reading How to Install the New Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016→