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Welcome to Microsoft Defender XDR for Security Analysts Welcome to Microsoft Defender XDR for Security Analysts, a hands-on course designed for security analysts, SOC professionals, incident responders, and cybersecurity practitioners who want to strengthen their threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities using Microsoft Defender XDR. This course focuses on how Microsoft Defender XDR provides unified threat protection across identities, endpoints, email, applications, and cloud workloads. You’ll learn how security teams leverage Microsoft Defender XDR to detect sophisticated attacks, investigate incidents, automate responses, and improve organizational security posture. You’ll begin by exploring the fundamentals of Microsoft Defender XDR, its architecture, benefits, and integration with Microsoft Sentinel. From there, you’ll learn how to configure alerts, investigate incidents, utilize Automated Investigation and Response (AIR), and implement advanced detection and security optimization techniques. Through concept-driven lessons, practical demonstrations, and real-world security scenarios, you’ll gain hands-on knowledge of modern security operations and incident response workflows using Microsoft’s extended detection and response platform. Recommended Background * Basic understanding of cybersecurity concepts and threat landscapes. * Familiarity with Microsoft 365 security technologies is helpful. * Experience with security operations, monitoring, or incident response is beneficial. * General understanding of cloud security and endpoint protection concepts. * Interest in Security Operations Center (SOC) workflows and threat hunting.By the End of This Course, You Will Be Able To: * Understand the architecture, capabilities, and benefits of Microsoft Defender XDR. * Configure and manage alerts, incidents, and threat analytics within Microsoft Defender XDR. * Investigate security incidents and perform threat analysis using Defender XDR tools and workflows. * Implement Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) to improve security operations efficiency. * Create custom detection rules, tune alerts, and optimize threat detection strategies. * Apply Data Loss Prevention (DLP) concepts and align security solutions using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA). * Integrate Microsoft Defender XDR with Microsoft Sentinel for centralized security monitoring and incident management. * Strengthen organizational security posture through proactive threat detection and response practices.

Syllabus

Getting Started with Microsoft Defender XDR

This module introduces learners to Microsoft Defender XDR and its importance in modern security operations. Participants will gain an understanding of the platform's architecture, core capabilities, and benefits for detecting, investigating, and responding to cyber threats across an organization's environment. The module explores how Microsoft Defender XDR differs from traditional security solutions, provides insights into threat analytics, and explains its integration with Microsoft Sentinel for centralized security operations.Learners will also be guided through practical demonstrations and step-by-step walkthroughs that showcase key Microsoft Defender XDR concepts, configurations, and security operations workflows in realistic enterprise scenarios

Proactive Threat Detection & Incident Response with Microsoft Defender XDR

This module focuses on leveraging Microsoft Defender XDR to proactively detect, investigate, and respond to security threats across the enterprise. Learners will explore alert configuration and notification management, understand the role of threat analytics in identifying emerging risks, and gain practical knowledge of Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) capabilities. The module also covers advanced security optimization techniques, including custom detection rules, alert tuning, deception technologies, and data loss prevention (DLP). Additionally, learners will examine security best practices and learn how to align Microsoft security solutions with the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) to address specific organizational security scenarios.