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Defender for servers mde onboarding behind the scenes:
https://medium.com/@vertho/defender-for-servers-mde-onboarding-behind-the-scenes-ffc328d31639
Block the automated onboarding of mde without disabling the mde integration:
Intro Up until now, onboarding non-Azure servers to Defender for Servers required Azure Arc as a mandatory pre-requisite. With this new release, Microsoft is introducing an additional direct onboarding path for non-Azure servers that does not require Azure Arc (making it optional rather than mandatory).
Welcome, this is the second part of the Defender for server P2 advanced protection series I will blog about. If you want to read the other parts they can be found here: The topic of this blog will be about how to start with adaptive application controls (ACC). Let’s begin with explaining high level what…
Intro Welcome to part three of the blog series on Unleach the power of Defender for Servers Plan 2! In our previous blog, we explored how to start implementing Adaptive Application control. In part 3, we’ll dive into the concept of agentless scanning, which is included in Defender for Cloud Plan 2. We’ll explore what…
*UPDATE 17/07/2023* Added extra information about system labels Intro Microsoft is doing a very good job at listening to their customers, partners and MVP’s lately. One of the highly requested feature was to simplify the requirements for their MDE settings management (AKA ‘MDE Attach’) . But that’s not all, more exciting news will be announced…
Intro This blog will be about an issue I bumped into when deploying one of the enhanced protection features in defender for cloud. The enhanced feature, adaptive application control, requires the deployment of the Azure Monitor Agent. The Azure Monitoring Agent also installs additional extensions. One of those additional extensions is the Azure Security Agent…
Intro This post is inspired on different setups I saw while working with my clients. More and more clients are leveraging the Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA) and Data Collection Rules (DCR) to collect log data. I’ve noticed that clients sometimes are sending logs data to different Log Analytics Workspace (LAW), without them being aware. Most…