Mark Morowczynski & Thomas Detzner: Microsoft Incident Response Playbooks

We all need solid, well though-out playbooks to help standardize our respons to common threat scenarios. In this episode we speak with Thomas Detzner and Mark Morowczynski about the brand new set of Microsoft incident response playbooks that were just released. This is a brand new effort to meticulously document prerequisites, investigation steps, and remediation process for common scenarios most commonly seen by the Microsoft incident response teams, and you definitely won't want to miss it.

Our Guests: Thomas Detzner and Mark Morowczynski
Thomas Detzner is a Project Leader  for Microsoft, creating guidance for Azure AD IR.

Mark Morowczynski (@markmorow) is a Principal Program Manager on the customer success team in the Microsoft Identity division. He spends most of his time working with customers on their deployments of Azure Active Directory. He can be frequently found on Twitter as @markmorow arguing about baseball and making sometimes funny gifs.

Links:
https://aka.ms/irplaybooks - Playbooks discussed in this episode
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/tutorial-azure-monitor-stream-logs-to-event-hub#access-data-from-your-event-hub - Azure Event Hub
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-baselines/security-baseline-final-for-windows-10-v1909-and-windows-server/ba-p/1023093 - Security Baslines
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52630 - Security Auditing and Monitoring Reference

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