As presented at ST Digital office in Brazzaville, March, 2023

1. IT Insecurity
Understanding the Threat of Modern Cyberattacks
MICHAEL NOEL, CCO

2. Michael Noel
@MichaelTNoel
Authored/Co-authored 20 books including the best-selling
SharePoint, Exchange, and Windows Unleashed series
Presented at over 250 events in 88 unique countries around
the world
Partner at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay
Area (cco.com)

3. The Evolution of the
Modern Hacker
WHY YOU SHOULD BE VERY CONCERNED

4. Spear Phishing

5. State Sponsored Attacks

6. Ransomware

7. Intellectual Property Loss through
“Oversharing”

8. Passwords are Not as Secure
as You Think
‘password’ =
5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
Test your password at
https://haveibeenpwned.com

9. Cached Credentials

10. Lateral Attacks

11. Tips and Tricks to
Protect your IP from
Theft
WHAT DO I DO TO PROTECT MY ORGANIZATION?

12. Physical
Network
Host
Application
Administration
Data
Defense in Depth Concepts

13. Hyperlink Safety

14. Full Disk Encryption

15. Data Loss Prevention

16. Multi-Factor Authentication

17. What Microsoft IT Tools
Can Help Improve
Security?
EXAMINING MICROSOFT CLOUD SECURITY OPTIONS

18. Microsoft 365 Defender
Microsoft 365 Defender for Cloud
Apps (previously Microsoft Cloud
App Security).
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
(previously Microsoft Defender
Advanced Threat Protection).
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
(previously Office 365 Advanced
Threat Protection).
Microsoft Defender for Identity
(previously Azure Advanced Threat
Protection).
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability
Management (In Preview)

19. Microsoft Defender for Cloud
(prev. Azure Defender)
MS Defender for Servers
MS Defender for Storage
MS Defender for SQL
MS Defender for Containers
MS Defender for App Service
MS Defender for Key Vault
MS Defender for Resource
Manager
MS Defender for DNS
MS Defender for open-source
relational databases
MS Defender for Azure Cosmos
DB

20. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
MDCA is a multimode Cloud
Access Security Broker (CASB)
Proactively identifies threats
across and in between cloud
platforms
Now integrated into the
Microsoft 365 Defender
console
(security.microsoft.com)

21. Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI)
MDI deploys sensors to domain
controllers to look for behaviors
associated with compromised internal
systems
MDI Sensors perform their calculations
locally and then forward their alerts to
the cloud
MDI Integrates with MCAS to provide a
single console experience for hybrid
events (On-Prem with MDI and Online
with MCAS)

22. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability
Management
Available in Public Preview for
eligible customers (P2 license
required)
Provides mechanisms to inventory
and remediate vulnerabilities and
weaknesses in applications,
browser extensions, and discovered
certificates.
Create security baselines,
remediation packages, and address
risks that factor into your
organization’s Secure Score

23. Microsoft Sentinel
Security Information & Event
Management (SIEM) Platform
built on Azure Monitor
Azure Sentinel provides for
centralized SIEM capabilities
for logs, alerting and providing
for reporting trends
Firewall, switch, Windows, and
Linux logs can all be forwarded
to Sentinel to allow for
retroactive forensics or real-
time alerts

24. Azure AD Password
Protection
Azure AD Password Protection runs as
agents on all internal domain
controllers that restrict how a password
is constructed.
Azure AD Password Protection allows
for complexity beyond the default
options in an AD environment,
disallowing passwords that are known
to be compromised and/or include key
words

25. Azure AD Entitlement Management
A component of Azure AD
Identity Governance, Azure AD
Entitlement Management is a
compliance and auditing control
platform that allows
organizations the ability to better
control access to Azure resources
Administrators can created
‘access packages’ to control what
type of rights will be granted,
which approvers can grant those
rights, and when they expire.

26. Merci! Questions?
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