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Describe the Microsoft Defender portal

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  A unified security operations platform is a fully integrated toolset for security teams to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to threats across their entire environment. For Microsoft, this means delivering the best of SIEM, XDR, posture management, and threat intelligence with advanced generative AI as a single platform. Through the Microsoft Defender portal, Microsoft delivers on the promise of a unified security operations platform so you can view the security health of your organization. The Microsoft Defender portal combines protection, detection, investigation, and response to threats across your entire organization and all its components, in a central place. To access the portal, you must be assigned an appropriate role such as Global Reader or Administrator, Security Reader or Administrator, or Security Operator in Microsoft Entra ID to access the Microsoft Defender portal. The Defender portal emphasizes quick access to information, simpler layouts, and bringing re...

Describe Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence

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  Threat intelligence analysts struggle with balancing a breadth of threat intelligence ingestion with the analysis of which threat intelligence poses the biggest threats to their organization and/or industry. Similarly, vulnerability intelligence analysts battle correlating their asset inventory with Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) information to prioritize the investigation and remediation of the most critical vulnerabilities associated with their organization. Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence addresses these challenges by aggregating and enriching critical data sources and displaying them in an innovative, easy-to-use interface. Analysts can then correlate indicators of compromise (IOCs) with related articles, actor profiles, and vulnerabilities. Defender TI also lets analysts collaborate with fellow Defender TI-licensed users within their tenant on investigations. Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence functionality includes: Threat analytics Intel Profiles Int...

Describe Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

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  Defender Vulnerability Management delivers asset visibility, intelligent assessments, and built-in remediation tools for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and network devices. Using Microsoft threat intelligence, breach likelihood predictions, business contexts, and devices assessments, Defender Vulnerability Management rapidly and continuously prioritizes the biggest vulnerabilities on your most critical assets and provides security recommendations to mitigate risk. Continuous asset discovery and monitoring Defender Vulnerability Management built-in and agentless scanners continuously monitor and detect risk in your organization even when devices aren't connected to the corporate network. Consolidated inventories provide a real-time view of your organization's software applications, digital certificates, hardware and firmware, and browser extensions to help you monitor and assess all your organization's assets. Examples include: Visibility into software and vulnerabil...