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Setting up Defender for Business XDR in 45 minutes or …

In this session, I reviewed the very most important parts to start with when setting up your XDR. That doesn't mean, skip the rest. It means start here and then go back through and configure everything.

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Peer groups and learning groups for 2024

It was my pleasure to introduce peer groups to Third Tier. In 2024, we're introducing focused learning groups for Defender, Intune, Public speaking and more

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Newsletter alpha test results

Create a news source that is focused on helping Microsoft 365 IT businesses by providing them with curated and summarized information, published by Microsoft and their MVP community

Mastermind and Peer Groups for 2024

The value of these groups is in the deep trust and friendships that evolve over time. Having a career-long group of trusted advisors is a huge advantage.

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Understanding AI use in Business

I'm writing an on-going series on AI for businesspeople. What is AI? How does it work? How do you use it?

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How to cultivate the self-managing employee

I realized that type of person that I needed to hire, how to recognize them, and how to cultivate any short comings that they had.

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Create new email addresses on the fly

A + address is a temporary email address that you create for some specific purpose.

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It’s now easy to send mail from an alias

You used to need an IT admin to help you get setup to send email from an alias. Somewhere along the way, this changed and now you can just send from an alias.

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Include IPv6 in Azure AD policies

Criminals of the world would love to know that they don't have to deal with MFA if they phish you while you're in the office. Now we've taken that option away

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Conclusions from reading threat analyst reports

Despite criminal masterminds and "security researchers" always coming up with the next greatest tool for causing financial damage to our businesses and economy, there are patterns.

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Ransomware prevention, not defense

Defense implies a reactionary approach. Prevention set the scene where ransomware can't get you in the first place.

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Setup up automated investigation and response

Many vendors call this Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) or Extended Detection and Response (XDR). Microsoft calls it Defender for Business.

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