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ACSC, ACSC essential 8, ASD, ASD 8, ASD essential 8, Microsoft, Operating System Hardening, Windows 10
Windows 10 Operating system hardening script
Windows 10 Operating system hardening script: Whilst researching for my ACSC 40 mitigations document I came across a little gem for hardening Windows 10 OS’s. The Australian Signals directorate recommends that “Operating system hardening” is a top 8 control to reduce your risk of cyber breach, this is also a control contained within the Center…
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kicksec.IO
08/04/2022
Articles, Endpoint Detection Response, EndPoint Protection, Extended detection and response, Extended Detection Response, MDR
An Empirical Assessment of Endpoint Detection and Response Systems against Advanced Persistent Threats Attack Vectors
An Empirical Assessment of Endpoint Detection and Response Systems against Advanced Persistent Threats Attack Vectors. Recently I wrote about EDR failure to detect and respond to cases of Advanced Persistent Threats here after discovering a research paper on the topic when researching the use of Machine Learning in cyber security Detection and response solutions such…
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kicksec.IO
07/04/2022
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Articles, Extended detection and response, Extended Detection Response, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Server
Microsoft Defender Endpoint Deployments
Recently I have been deploying Microsoft Defender for Endpoints into my lab environment as a part of my job function. I am responsible for aiding resellers and Managed Service Providers (MSP) to implement Microsoft Security solutions for their business customers. Personally I have been working with tech for many years but almost always using Microsoft…
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kicksec.IO
06/04/2022
Articles, EndPoint Protection, Microsoft, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Server
Mic
Microsoft Defender for endpoint server licensing
Microsoft Defender for endpoint server licensing, Microsoft licensing is hard to follow at the best of times, not to mention product name changes/updates, licensing terms etc etc. Recently I have been involved in licensing questions for reseller and Managed Service Providers (MSP) across my region and Microsoft Defender for endpoint server licensing has come up…
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Microsoft Defender for endpoint server licensing
kicksec.IO
06/04/2022
Articles, Microsoft, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Windows Autopilot
Configuring Microsoft Autopilot clients
Quick guide
Configuring Microsoft Autopilot clients – Microsoft has some impressive functionality with their Microsoft 365 Business Premium licensing (for under 300 users) and with Microsoft Endpoint manager, I have mentioned in other posts about Microsoft Defender for Endpoints as another excellent way to improve your security without the traditional cost associated with tools such as CrowdStrike…
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Quick guide
kicksec.IO
04/04/2022
Articles, Microsoft, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Defender for Identity
Microsoft Defender for Identity
Microsoft Defender for Identity is the Microsoft offical method of protecting Active Directory and on-premise infrastructure from cyber breach. Microsoft Defender for Identity integrates with Azure Arc to add many additional layers of telemetry to Microsoft Sentinel for SIEM and SOAR providing organisations with detection and response to both on-premise and cloud focused cyber attacks.…
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kicksec.IO
04/04/2022
Microsoft, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mitre Att&ck, Ransomeware, Ransomware
New Ransomware Recommendation Dashboard in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
New Ransomware Recommendation Dashboard in Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft have released their new Ransomware recommendation workbook for Microsoft Defender for Cloud. As a Microsoft Partner or a Microsoft customer having Microsoft Defender for Cloud is included with your M365 Business Premium and M365 E5 licenses and an excellent way to determine your organisations security…
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kicksec.IO
31/03/2022
Articles, Breach, MFA, Multi factor Authentication, multifactor authentication
Lapsus$: Microsoft and Okta “breaches”
Lapsus$: Microsoft and Okta “breaches”: When our children start being involved in masterminding cyber “breaches”, the methods change………. Microsoft and Okta were attacked in the same way as my 9 year old daughter uses when she wants more Roblox time……. 30-40 messages in short succession until I relent (or I put imessage into silent mode),…
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kicksec.IO
28/03/2022
Articles, Extended detection and response, Extended Detection Response, Open source, XDR
WAZUH Open source security platform
WAZUH Open source security platform is a fork of OSSEC, it has been around since 2015 as a product and is growing in adoption. What is Wazuh Wazuh is an eXtended Detection and response platform that does not claim any level of either: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning or, that it is easy These are the…
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kicksec.IO
23/03/2022
Articles, Microsoft, Microsoft Defender
Oceanleaf Microsoft Defender tutorials
Oceanleaf Microsoft Defender tutorials, just came across what looks like an amazing resource for those who want to know more about Microsoft Defender and its capabilities. https://oceanleaf.ch Discovered on Reddits r/cybersecurity subreddit, a very good place to get upto date information and opinion on everything cyber security. https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/
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kicksec.IO
22/03/2022