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24/7 protection during Covid-19 – Defender ATP Auto IR

2020-05-14 0 Comments

One thing we usually discuss with customers is the workload. Everyone has too much to do and it can, sometimes be difficult to prioritize investigations.

Especially now, where you might be short on staff, and the Covid-19 virus can strike at the SOC organization or reduce the numbers of available people.

Of course, this does not only apply during the world crisis of Covid-19. Automation is also a help in the normal day to day work.

There are benefits of being able to automate responses and we have these discussions with many customers.

MDATP Automatic self-healing is built-in into Defender ATP and is mimicking these ideal steps a human would take to investigate and remediate organizational assets, impacted by a cyber threat.

This is done using 20 built-in investigation playbooks and 10 remediation actions

Increased Capacity

  • Respond at the speed of automation
  • Investigate and remediate all alerts automatically
  • Free up critical resources to work on strategic initiatives

Cost implications

  • It will drive down the cost per investigation and remediation
  • Takes away manual, repetitive tasks
  • Automated remediation eliminates downtime

Get full value of your protection suite and people, quick configuration and you are up and running

SecOps Investigation (Manual)

Sometimes it will take some time from the alert being triggered until someone has the time to start looking at it.  Manual work also requires more resources for review and approval for each action

From a SecOPs perspective, an initial response involves information gathering.

Collecting:

  1. Process list
  2. Services
  3. Drivers
  4. Network connections
  5. Files created
    1. Where did the file originate from?
    1. etc

Based on our results, we will decide the remediation steps (if we do not follow a playbook here, the catch will be different result depending on who makes the response).

Remediation:

The remediation will include connecting remotely or manually collect the device and then launch tools for the remediation process.

Automatic response with Auto IR

Fast time to respond which will avoid additional damage and compromise of additional devices, when attackers will start moving lateral in the environment.

It’s our 24/7 buddy who assists the SOC staff to remediate threats so the human staff can focus on other things

  1. MDATP is sending telemetry data to the cloud
  2. MDATP cloud continuously analyzes the data to detect threats
  3. Once a threat is identitfied an alert is being raised
  4. The alert kicks off a new automated investigation
  5. AIRS component asks Sense client to initiate SenseIR
  6. SenseIR is then orchestrated by AIRS on what action should be executed (Collection/Remediation)
  7. Based on the data collected from the machine (current and historical) AIRS decides what actions should be taken
  8. For every threat identified, AIRS will automatically analyze the best course of action and tailor a dedicated surgical remediation action to be executed using on device components (e.g. Windows Defender Antivirus)

Playbook is executed

“suspicious host” playbook is just an example of “catch all” playbook that is applied after detailed AutoIR investigation for evidences raised by alerts / incident  to ensure that nothing is missed.

Data Collection

  • Volatile data
    • All processes list – main image, loaded modules, handles, suspicious memory sections
    • All services list
    • All drivers list
    • All connections
  • None-Volatile data
    • Recently created files – x minutes febore / after alert
    • All persistence methods
    • Recently executed files
    • Download location

Incrimination

  • Microsoft Security Graph eco system – DaaS, AVaaS, TI, TA, Detection engine, ML infrastructure etc.
  • Custom TI indicators – for allow / block list

Remediation

  • How?
    • By leveraging OS components (e.g. Defender Antivirus) to perform the remediation (prebuilt into the system, low level actions (driver), tried and tested)
  • What?
    • File actions
    • Process actions
    • Service actions
    • Registry actions
    • Driver actions
    • Persistency methods (Reg, Link files, etc.) actions
    • Scheduled task actions
    • More…

Getting started

Advanced Features (edited list)
  • In machine groups select Add machine group

As you can see in the options, you can select different AutoIR levels

Summary

Go auto approval, save time and protect your business!

Happy Hunting

Detect, Protect, Respond, Security

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Gartner EPP Magic quadrant 2019 – Defender in the leading quadrant

2019-08-23 0 Comments

The 2019 version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant clearly shows that Microsoft is in the game to provide extremely powerfull Endpoint protection platform (EPP).
Microsoft is named a leader!

With built-in powerful capability which ties to Protect, Detect and respond, they have given us great tools for our security work.

Microsoft is unique in the EPP space, as it is the only vendor that can provide built-in endpoint protection capabilities tightly integrated with the OS. Windows Defender Antivirus (known as System Center Endpoint Protection in Window 7 and 8) is now a core component of all versions of the Windows 10 OS, and provides cloud-assisted attack protection.

Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) provides an EDR capability, monitoring and reporting on Windows Defender Antivirus and Windows Defender Exploit Guard (“Exploit Guard”), vulnerability and configuration management, as well as advanced hardening tools.

The Microsoft Defender ATP incident response console consolidates alerts and incident response activities across Microsoft Defender ATP, Office 365 ATP,
Azure ATP and Active Directory, as well as incorporates data sensitivity from Azure information protection.

Microsoft is much more open to supporting heterogeneous environments and has released EPP capabilities for Mac. Linux is supported through partners, while native agents are on the roadmap.

Microsoft has been placed in the Leaders quadrant this year due to the rapid market share gains of Windows Defender Antivirus (Defender), which is now the market share leader in business endpoints.

In addition, excellent execution on its roadmap make it a credible replacement for competitive solutions, particularly for organizations looking to reduce complexity.

Gartner

The benefit of the insights and protection these tools, and ability to use built-in SOAR capabilities, gives security teams around the globe a better and much faster understanding of the attacks for much fast response.

Many features like Exploit Protection, Network Protection, Attack Surface reduction, Firewall and more will provide a more reliable platform which is easy to manage.

The enriched alerts and incidents gives security teams a chance to put their effort to the critical incidents and avoid spending time trying to fight the noice in all different tools and manual tasks.

Automated investigations

Build your playbooks

Take back the control with live response

We also have the threat and vulnerability management feature which gives you visibility on vulnerable software in your estate

Threat hunting

Full gartner report:
https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-1OCBC1P5&ct=190731&st=sb&fbclid=IwAR3G9Otpxuc52bi0hpFE4-iGv8uhvgnxtSl0boqAU7-R4aw5MyLsuyy0fLg

Congratulations Microsoft, we’re looking forward for all coming features

Happy Hunting!

Detect, Identify, Protect, Respond

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Automate response with Defender ATP and Microsoft Flow

2019-04-08 9 Comments

So now when we have cool products (more or less builtin) we need to start working with them and not be required to look in the portals 24/7.

This post will demonstrate an example on how to use approval in email to isolate machines with new alerts.

Microsoft Flow is very easy to use to create business flows for all kind of products. You can manage anything which has an API.

Microsoft has released connectors for many solutions and by drag n drop you can create flows to make your life a lot easier.

This flow used in this blog post is just to be able to show something useful.

  • Start by browsing to https://flow.microsoft.com and create a new flow
  • Search for WDATP and select the Trigger “Triggers when a Windows Defender ATP alert accurs (preview)”

We will then add an action to “Get single alert preview”, this will give us more information to use later.

In below picture we can see some of the dynamic content we can add to next step in the flow

We can also add a condition. In this example we use condition for alert severity (high or medium).

We also want to add an approver step.

For some reason the Approval type is in Swedish for me. You have 2 default options and one custom option
Options are “Everyone must approve” or “First one to approve”.

Based on the response from the approval step we continue the flow with a condition to go ahead if the responder choose to approve the action.


We add the action “Isolate machine (preview)” and configure that along with a send email action.

Running the Flow

If you need to change your flow you can re-run it using the same data as used previously

After the approval we get the status message send to all approvers

We can see that our test machine was successfully isolated

In the flow test overview

From the ATP console we now have the option to release the machine from isolation, collect investigation package etc

Dynamic content

Actions

Pro tips:

  • Use get alert to be able to add more dynamic content to use in subsequent steps
  • Use get machine to be able to get more information like IP, Computername etc
  • Start building your automated playbooks. This will save you time

Events, Recover

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