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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Cookbook

By : Sasha Kranjac
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Cookbook

By: Sasha Kranjac

Overview of this book

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a multi-cloud and hybrid cloud security posture management solution that enables security administrators to build cyber defense for their Azure and non-Azure resources by providing both recommendations and security protection capabilities. This book will start with a foundational overview of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and its core capabilities. Then, the reader is taken on a journey from enabling the service, selecting the correct tier, and configuring the data collection, to working on remediation. Next, we will continue with hands-on guidance on how to implement several security features of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, finishing with monitoring and maintenance-related topics, gaining visibility in advanced threat protection in distributed infrastructure and preventing security failures through automation. By the end of this book, you will know how to get a view of your security posture and where to optimize security protection in your environment as well as the ins and outs of Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Creating suppression rules

The Security Alerts list can sometimes contain alerts that might not be relevant to you and that you don't want to be on the list. Typical reasons you would want to suppress alerts are alerts being triggered too often or if there are many false positives. In these cases, you might want to declutter the Security Alerts list, so you can focus on more relevant and important alerts.

In this recipe, you will learn how to create alert suppression rules, to temporarily suppress and remove alerts from the Security Alerts list.

Getting ready

Open a web browser and navigate to https://portal.azure.com.

How to do it

To create a suppression rule in Microsoft Defender for Cloud for a specific security alert, take the following steps:

  1. In the Azure portal, open Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
  2. On the left menu, click Security alerts.
  3. Select a security alert you want to create a suppression rule for. The details pane opens on the right...