Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender

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Microsoft and Modern Cybersecurity Threats

It’s useful to understand the state of cybersecurity as a backdrop when beginning or continuing any journey with Microsoft 365 Defender, which this book will help you master as a defender. The threats that organizations face continue to change across all industries and scales. The threats are considerably different from those experienced as long ago as the beginning of Windows’ mass adoption by the workplace, or even 5 or 10 years ago, far into IT maturity in many organizations. Nowadays, attackers’ budgets, capabilities, and demands outstrip those of a time when a conventional anti-virus and gateway firewall was all you had to consider.

Now we live in an era where the workforce has left the confines ...