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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint exclusions

Since Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a suite of products, rather than just one single piece of software, there are various places where you can create exclusions for different features. Also, there are integrations in other products, that result in possible side effects when enabling certain settings. Most of these products have separate documentations, there is no single documentation page that contains all the information about exclusions available in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

Azure Attack Paths

Creating and maintaining a secure environment is hard. And with every technology or product added to your environment it gets more complicated. Microsoft Azure as a cloud environment is no exception to this rule and with the many services and features that get added every year it just gets more complicated even if you did not change a thing. Because keeping your IT assets secure is important as you move to the cloud, it is important to know which bad practices to avoid and which attack scenarios are out there.

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You always trust your CSP - Cross Tenant MFA and GDAP

Entra ID Multifactor Authentication is on everyone’s mind, as Microsoft will enforce the usage of MFA for most of the Admin portals starting October 2024. But many in the industry are a step ahead and had MFA enforced already and are thinking about how to make MFA more convenient for everybody involved. Let me introduce you to cross-tenant access settings for B2B collaboration and especially inbound trust settings for MFA. With this you can configure if you trust another tenants MFA configuration and don’t require the users from this tenant to setup a second set of MFA in your tenant.

Find lateral movement paths using KQL Graph semantics

Graph databases offer great insights into existing data, that relational databases cannot or can only solve with more resources. Tools that leverage this ability to find lateral movement paths (edges) between user, computers and other entities (nodes) like Bloodhound offer an amazing data source for red teams and blue teams alike. But still the use in the defender world is yet limited. This might be because blue teams don’t like to use red teamers toolkit (really?

Data Protection Made a Breeze: MDA integration in Edge for Business

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is one of the many puzzle pieces of the Microsoft XDR solution that helps you to secure your corporate environment. While Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Office 365 may be the more prominent names in this puzzle, Defender for Cloud Apps has a few aces up it’s sleeve that help you to protect access to corporate data on a complete other level. Many of you might already know the cloud discovery capabilities, which help you to get a deep insight into your companies usage of Software as a Service solutions.

Passkey Public Preview for Entra ID

With the release of the public preview for Passkey in Entra ID, I think, the broad adoption of passwordless and phishing resistant authentication adoption in the enterprise is coming close. Of course we had phishing resistant, passwordless methods available before. FIDO2 security keys are already a supported way to sign-in to Entra ID. But realistically this was always just for the technical savvy, the admins and power users and there were still limitations on mobile platforms.

Protect your users from Device Code Flow abuse

Device Code Flow is a great feature. You are signed in on a machine that does not have any UI but need to connect to an Azure or Microsoft 365 resource? No problem, device code flow to the rescue. All major PowerShell cmdlets, the az tools and many other tools support this authentication flow. What makes it so flexible and great? You can go to https://microsoft.com/devicelogin enter a generated code that is displayed on another device and sign-in using your normal user and bam, you are in.

Anonymous IP address involving Apple iCloud Private Relay

Since a few weeks I recognized an uptick in Entra ID Protection alerts regarding “Anonymous IP address” detections. Normally this is a high-fidelity indicator that someone is using a Tor browser or some other method to cover their tracks. While this behavior is totally fine in a private setting, in enterprise IT the use of such anonymizers is not considered baseline behavior. While analyzing the related alerts for common patterns I stumbled upon the IP address information.