Introduction to Microsoft Defender

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in understanding Microsoft Defender products for endpoints, identity, email, applications, cloud workloads, alerts, incidents, and security posture. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Explain threat prevention, detection, investigation, response, exposure management, incidents, alerts, and security posture
• Map Defender products to endpoints, identities, email, collaboration, cloud applications, and cloud workloads
• Understand endpoint onboarding, protection, attack-surface reduction, alerts, incidents, investigations, and remediation
• Understand identity sensors, suspicious behavior, lateral movement, identity risk, and investigation evidence
• Explain email protection, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, phishing, collaboration, cloud-app discovery, and session controls
• Understand Defender for Cloud posture, workload protection, recommendations, alerts, and regulatory views
• Review unified incidents, evidence, automated response, threat analytics, secure score, reports, and integrations
• Define roles, access, escalation, support, monitoring, policy tuning, and improvement priorities

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.