Thijs Lecomte, Author at Practical 365

Practical Sentinel: Ingesting Networking Data in Microsoft Sentinel

Thijs Lecomte — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Practical Sentinel, Thijs describes the different ingestion methods, how to choose the best method, and advises how to filter the ingested data.

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New Features to Manage Inactive Devices in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Thijs Lecomte — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Over the last year, Microsoft has released several new features to make management of inactive devices easier. In this blog, we review these features and build off our original blog post on "Handling Inactive Devices in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint."

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Practical Sentinel: Adding Networking Data to Microsoft Sentinel

Thijs Lecomte — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Are you looking to ingest your data into Sentinel? In this episode of Practical Sentinel, we review use cases and tips for ingesting networking data into Sentinel.

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Practical Sentinel: Auditing Multifactor Authentication with Sentinel

Thijs Lecomte — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Practical Sentinel, Thijs Lecomte discusses how to create some basic KQL queries to track MFA usage.

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Practical Sentinel: A Practical Look at the Unified SecOps Experience

Thijs Lecomte — Tue, 21 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this blog, we take a look at the Unified Security Operations Platform, review what is available right now, discuss what Microsoft is building, and ask whether you need this functionality.

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Practical Sentinel: Setting the Scene

Thijs Lecomte — Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Practical Sentinel! In the introductory blog of this series, we review how Microsoft positions Sentinel, what capabilities the product includes, and what it does well.

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Managing Exclusions for Microsoft Security Solutions

Thijs Lecomte — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this blog, Thijs Lecomte reviews Exclusion for Microsoft Security Solutions, why they are important, and how to manage them.

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Detecting Midnight Blizzard using Microsoft Sentinel

Thijs Lecomte — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000

This blog reviews the Midnight Blizzard Attack, providing some hypothetical scenarios of what actually happened and how it could've been prevented.

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2023 Microsoft Security Wrap-Up

Thijs Lecomte — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000

With the end of the year in sight, we wanted to look back and see how Microsoft performed with security products in 2023, reviewing some of Microsoft’s biggest announcements and discussing if Microsoft's focus is leaning in the right direction.

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Signing into a Windows Device Using the Web

Thijs Lecomte — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000

In this blog, Thijs Lecomte reviews the new Web Sign-in feature for Windows 11 and its specific use cases.

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