Endpoint Investigation, Invasive or Invaluable?
Give analysts agency wihout losing availability. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) has live response options that allow security analysts using the EDR system to take actions on a connected system. This is exciting for security departments that are using the tool, but this may raise concerns for the rest of the IT departments. MDE offers […]
Is “Always Encrypted” Actually Always Encrypted?
Secure your data with functionally always encrypted. Azure allows their database users to encrypt their data with “always encrypted”. This is a system that uses transparent data encryption in combination with other encryption methods to ensure that data is always encrypted in every state it is being used. In this blog, we will answer the […]
Managing Timestamps in Sentinel
Turn table data into an investigation timeline. Microsoft Sentinel uses raw table data to represent what is happening during an incident while using the investigation graph. This has resulted in some confusion around timestamps and what each of them mean. A cloud security analyst will have significantly more difficulty trying to figure out what happened […]
Why are There So Many Impossible Travels in MCAS?
Discern true and false positive impossible travels. Analysts at CyberMSI have been noticing a significant increase in MCAS impossible travel alerts lately. At first it looked like a trend in information security incidents, but after looking into the alerts further they discovered that the increase in this alert type was due to false positives. In […]
Implement CIS Controls in Microsoft Cloud Products
Secure your cloud environment with all 20 CIS controls. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a major player in information security controls. Cybersecurity Administrators at CyberMSI went over CIS controls version 7.1 to ensure that the organization had all aspects of their cloud environment secured. By the end of the project, we were able […]
Read Microsoft Sentinel Playbooks Like A Pro
Understand Microsoft Sentinel automation by breaking it down into parts. When an Azure user opens a logic app like Microsoft Sentinel Playbooks for the first time it may be intimidating seeing large chains of branched boxes with esoteric symbols. Fortunately, if the user understands what the primary types of action pieces do, they should be […]
All Microsoft 365 Defender Permissions Menu Locations
Managing permissions in all 4 Microsoft 365 Defender platforms. The menus for granting permissions in the Microsoft 365 Defender platforms are hidden in a maze of Microsoft Docs articles. It took experienced Microsoft security administrators at CyberMSI multiple hours to try and pin down where the menus were without having the global admin privileges available. […]
Why Are There 4 Different Microsoft Defender for Cloud VM Security Extensions?
Use extensions to customize Microsoft Defender for Cloud VM security. Microsoft Defender for Cloud uses extensions to allow users to add features to their VMs. These extensions are normally used to give VMs some new functionality, and a noticeable number of these added functionalities are used for security reasons. In this blog, we discuss what […]
AD Domain Service and Defender for Identity Demystified
Understanding hybrid environment security with relative ease. Some members of an organization’s IT staff may be concerned about subjects like “domain services” and “hybrid environments” because they may view it as a complicated transition that affects their on-premises infrastructure. In addition to the complications of implementing the system, there will also be complications when it […]