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Guidance for governing the identities of AI agents and non-human identities (NHIs) — Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio agents, Microsoft Foundry agents, custom AI agents, and traditional service principals/managed identities — through their full lifecycle. Covers…
Guidance for Azure AI Content Safety — programmatic content moderation for text, images, multimodal, and generative AI guardrails. Covers Content Safety categories (hate, violence, sexual, self-harm) with severity levels, Prompt Shields for jailbreak and…
Guidance for secure remote VM management in Azure using Azure Bastion combined with Defender for Cloud just-in-time (JIT) VM access. Covers Bastion SKU selection (Developer / Basic / Standard / Premium), IP-based and shareable-link connections, native client…
Guidance for Azure Confidential Computing — protecting data in use through hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). Covers Confidential VMs (AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX), Confidential containers on AKS (Kata + AMD SEV-SNP), confidential GPU VMs…
Guidance for Azure DDoS Protection — Network Protection (per-VNet) and IP Protection (per public IP) tiers built on the same always-on Microsoft platform. Covers tier selection vs free Basic infrastructure protection, scope (VNet vs single IP), traffic…
Guidance for the security-side use of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics — designing the workspace strategy that feeds Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud, choosing analytics vs basic vs auxiliary log tiers, retention and archive, table-level…
Guidance for Azure Web Application Firewall — deployed on Azure Front Door (global, edge-tier) or Azure Application Gateway (regional, integrated with backend pools). Covers WAF policy design with managed rule sets (Microsoft Default Rule Set, Bot Manager,…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager — continuous compliance posture across Microsoft and non-Microsoft assets, mapped to 360+ regulatory templates (ISO 27001/27018/27701, SOC 2, NIST 800-53/171/CSF, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, IRAP, Essential…
Guidance for safely deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot — end-to-end readiness covering oversharing remediation, SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) restricted sites and content discovery, sensitivity label coverage, Purview DLP for Copilot, Restricted…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (Defender EASM) — discovers and inventories an organization's internet-facing assets (domains, hosts, IPs, SSL certs, ASNs, web pages, contacts) from the outside-in. Covers seed-based…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Business (MDB) — the SMB-segment endpoint security product (≤300 employees), bundled with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and available as a standalone SKU. Covers what's included vs MDE Plan 1/2 (next-gen AV, EDR with…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Cloud — AI workload protection (AI-SPM and runtime threat detection for generative AI). Covers AI Security Posture Management (discovery of Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry / Amazon Bedrock / Google Vertex AI resources,…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Containers — Kubernetes and container security across AKS, Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, and OpenShift. Covers agentless discovery, agentless vulnerability assessment for images and running containers (powered by…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for IoT — agentless OT/ICS network detection and response for industrial environments, plus enterprise IoT (EIoT) protection integrated with Defender XDR. Covers OT sensor deployment (physical/virtual, SPAN/TAP), Purdue model…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Servers (Plan 1 and Plan 2) — server-specific protection in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Covers plan selection, agentless vs agent-based scanning, MDE for Servers integration, file integrity monitoring (FIM via MDE),…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Storage — threat protection for Azure Storage accounts (Blob, Files, Data Lake Gen2). Covers the v2 (per-storage-account) plan, on-upload malware scanning powered by Defender Antivirus, sensitive data threat detection…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI) and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management (MDVM) — the threat-and-vulnerability layer of Defender XDR. Covers MDVM exposure score, CVE prioritization with threat insights and active…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra External ID — the unified customer identity and access management (CIAM) and external collaboration platform that replaces Azure AD B2C (for new tenants) and consolidates B2B guest scenarios. Covers external tenant creation, user…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access (GSA) — Microsoft's Security Service Edge (SSE) combining Entra Internet Access (SWG/Secure Web Gateway) and Entra Private Access (ZTNA replacement for VPN). Covers client deployment (Windows, macOS, iOS,…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra Verified ID — verifiable credentials issuance and verification platform based on open standards (W3C Verifiable Credentials, DIDs, OpenID4VC). Covers issuer setup (tenant configuration, DID registration, signing key in Key Vault),…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra workload identities — managed identities, service principals, and workload identity federation. Covers system-assigned vs user-assigned managed identity, federated credentials (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, other OIDC…
Guidance for securing Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep, ARM, Terraform, and ACI/Container) pipelines on Azure — shift-left scanning, policy-as-code, secret hygiene, identity for pipelines, drift detection, and supply chain. Covers Microsoft Defender for Cloud…
Guidance for hardening macOS endpoints managed by Microsoft Intune — automated device enrollment via Apple Business Manager (ABM), platform single sign-on (PSSO) with Entra ID, FileVault disk encryption escrow, security configuration profiles (Gatekeeper,…
Guidance for rolling out passkeys (device-bound and synced) and FIDO2 security keys in Microsoft Entra ID as the primary phishing-resistant authentication method. Covers passkey types (device-bound in Microsoft Authenticator, synced passkeys via platform…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview AI Hub (now part of Data Security Posture Management for AI) — discover, govern, and protect sensitive data flowing into AI applications (Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio agents, ChatGPT, Gemini, third-party generative AI).…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview Customer Key and Double Key Encryption (DKE) — customer-controlled encryption for service-side data (Customer Key for Exchange/SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams/Purview) and client-side double encryption for highly sensitive documents…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) — detect, investigate, and act on risky user activity (data theft by departing employees, intellectual property leaks, security policy violations) using signals from M365, Entra, Defender, Windows…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview Records Management — declaring, managing, and disposing records across SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, and Teams. Covers retention labels with record / regulatory record options, file plan import, event-based retention (employee…
Guidance for detection engineering in Microsoft Sentinel — building, testing, deploying, and maintaining analytics rules, hunting queries, and SOAR automation. Covers the Content Hub solution model, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, scheduled vs near-real-time (NRT) vs…
Guidance for the Windows 11 enterprise security baseline — Microsoft's recommended security settings deployed via Intune (Settings catalog / security baselines) or GPO. Covers core hardware-rooted controls (TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, virtualization-based security…
Guidance for managing AI agents at enterprise scale with Microsoft Agent 365 - the control plane that lets admins observe, govern, and secure every agent (Microsoft, Copilot Studio, and third-party) from a single registry, using Microsoft Entra Agent ID for…
Guidance for remediating oversharing across Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Exchange) using the Secure & Governed Data Foundation blueprint - a three-pillar program (remediate oversharing, set up guardrails, meet regulations) built on SharePoint…
Guidance for designing secure APIs on Azure - authentication, authorization, gateway controls, input validation, rate limiting, secret management, and runtime threat detection - aligned to OWASP API Security Top 10 and Azure API Management. WHEN: API security…
Guidance for selecting the right Azure RBAC role with least privilege - mapping required actions to built-in roles, deciding when a custom role is needed, scoping assignments correctly, and choosing between control-plane and data-plane roles. Covers scope…
Guidance for cloud and SaaS security posture management - combining Defender for Cloud CSPM (IaaS/PaaS) and Defender for Cloud Apps SSPM (SaaS) to assess and harden posture across cloud and SaaS apps. Covers Secure Score, MCSB, attack-path analysis, SSPM…
Guidance for responding to and recovering from a significant identity/tenant compromise - regaining administrative control, evicting the adversary in a single coordinated action, and hardening to prevent reentry. Covers trusted foundation (PAW), containment,…
Guidance for designing security architecture using Zero Trust, the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA), Cloud Adoption Framework Secure methodology, and Well-Architected Security pillar. Covers the six Zero Trust pillars, defense-in-depth,…
Guidance for Microsoft Security Copilot - the generative-AI security platform that helps analysts investigate, hunt, summarise, and respond using natural language, plugins, promptbooks, and embedded experiences. Covers SCU provisioning, plugins, promptbooks,…
Guidance for threat modelling using STRIDE and the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). Covers data-flow diagrams, trust boundaries, the STRIDE categories, mitigation mapping, and tooling (Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool). WHEN: threat modeling,…
Guidance for the Microsoft unified security operations platform that brings Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Security Copilot, Threat Intelligence, and Microsoft Security Exposure Management together in the Microsoft Defender portal. Covers…