
Protect your SQL Server on-premises, in Azure, and in multicloud
Azure Defender for SQL is now generally available for use with SQL Server on premises, in multicloud deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and in virtual machines on Azure. Azure Defender for SQL constantly monitors ... continue reading

Zerologon is now detected by Microsoft Defender for Identity
There has been a huge focus on the recently patched CVE-2020-1472 Netlogon Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, widely known as ZeroLogon. While Microsoft strongly recommends that you deploy the latest security updates to your servers and devices, we also want to ... continue reading
Securing a Windows Server VM in Azure
If you've built and managed Windows Servers in an on-premises environment, you may have a set of configuration steps as well as regular process and monitoring alerts, to ensure that server is as secure as possible. But if you run ... continue reading
Deploying Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux Servers.
Hi IT Pro, The following is step-by-step document for Defender for Endpoint Linux (MD ATP for Linux) deployment. Let's start your MD for Endpoint Linux deployment! ________________________________ Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Linux (MD ATP) support for Linux with kernel version ... continue reading
Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Enable Endpoint Protection
Introduction This is John Barbare and I am a Sr. Customer Engineer at Microsoft focusing on all things in the Cybersecurity space. In this tutorial I will walk you through the steps of configuring and enabling Microsoft Defender for Endpoint ... continue reading
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – MD ATP Daily Operation – Part 1
Hi IT Pros, I have combined the information for Security Team who monitors, responds and manages the ATP Portal on a daily basis. Please check it out and give your feedback. For Alert Notification and Live Response with remediation and ... continue reading
What is Azure Defender?
Mention the name "Defender" in relation to Microsoft and I'm taken back to the launch of the Windows Defender anti-spyware product, in 2006. This was truly breaking news that Microsoft would launch their own protection software, off the back of ... continue reading
Microsoft Defender for Identity – Azure ATP Daily Operation
Hi IT Pros, I would like to continue the blog about Microsoft Defender for Identity with topic related to the daily operation of SecOp Team who traces all attacks against Identities stored in your on-prem Active Directory domain controllers. Please ... continue reading

Maintain Your Microsoft Monitoring Agent Up To Date With Azure Automation
Hi there . Today, I am here again, to present one of the possible solutions to keep the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) installed on your virtual machine up to date with roughly 0 effort. The reason why I started playing ... continue reading
Dharma Ransomware: Recovery and Preventative Measures
This is John Barbare and I am a Sr Customer Engineer at Microsoft focusing on all things in the Cybersecurity space. In the last several months, I have been getting a lot of requests around certain Ransomware that steals credentials through targeting phishing campaigns, extracting credentials to get Domain Admin access, and then ... continue reading