Course Overview
To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to use Microsoft Defender XDR to detect and respond to cyberthreats. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with investigating and gathering evidence about attacks on endpoints. They should also have experience using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Kusto Query Language (KQL).
Prerequisites
- Experience using the Microsoft Defender portal
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Sentinel
- Experience using Kusto Query Language (KQL) in Microsoft Sentinel
You'll need to have access to a Microsoft 365 E5 Tenant with a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P2 license to perform the exercises.
Course Content
Mitigate incidents using Microsoft Defender
- Introduction
- Use the Microsoft Defender portal
- Manage incidents
- Investigate incidents
- Manage and investigate alerts
- Manage automated investigations
- Use the action center
- Explore advanced hunting
- Investigate Microsoft Entra sign-in logs
- Understand Microsoft Secure Score
- Analyze threat analytics with the Security Copilot Threat Intelligence Briefing Agent
- Analyze reports
- Configure the Microsoft Defender portal
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment
- Introduction
- Create your environment
- Understand operating systems compatibility and features
- Onboard devices
- Manage access
- Create and manage roles for role-based access control
- Configure device groups
- Configure environment advanced features
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Configure for alerts and detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Introduction
- Configure advanced features
- Configure alert notifications
- Manage alert suppression
- Manage indicators
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Configure and manage automation using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Introduction
- Configure advanced features
- Manage automation upload and folder settings
- Configure automated investigation and remediation capabilities
- Block at risk devices
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Perform device investigations in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Introduction
- Use the device inventory list
- Investigate the device
- Use behavioral blocking
- Detect devices with device discovery
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Defend against Cyberthreats with Microsoft Defender XDR lab exercises
- Introduction
- Configure the Microsoft Defender XDR environment
- Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Mitigate Attacks with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Summary