Microsoft Secure Score in the Microsoft Defender XDR ecosystem — how Entra ID, Defender for Endpoint, Office 365, and Purview feed the score

Microsoft Secure Score Part 2: Inside the Defender Ecosystem

Part 2 of the Secure Score series. Where Microsoft Secure Score physically lives, how it feeds off the Microsoft Defender family, what each source product contributes, and a practical exercise to trace one score point back to the product that generated it.

May 4, 2026 · 9 min · Dimosthenis Atteia
Microsoft Secure Score operational workflow — prioritization, change management, and compliance mapping for ISO 27001 and NIS2

Microsoft Secure Score Part 3: Daily Operations & ISO 27001

Part 3 of the Secure Score series. How to actually run Microsoft Secure Score day-to-day: prioritizing 260+ recommendations, building a change management process that doesn’t break production, mapping controls to ISO 27001 and NIS2, collecting audit evidence, and reporting to the board.

May 22, 2026 · 20 min · Dimosthenis Atteia
Microsoft Defender for Cloud — protecting Azure and multicloud workloads

Microsoft Defender Part 3: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (The One That's Actually Different)

Part 3 of the Microsoft Defender Demystified series. Microsoft Defender for Cloud explained in plain language, the CSPM foundation, the paid Defender CSPM tier, the workload protection plans, the multicloud story, and why the unified Microsoft Defender portal is quietly making all this one experience.

July 10, 2026 · 10 min · Dimosthenis Atteia
Which Microsoft Defender products come with Business Premium, E3, E5, and E7

Microsoft Defender Part 4: The Licensing Decoder

Part 4 of the Microsoft Defender Demystified series. A licensing decoder across the 2026 Microsoft 365 lineup, including the new Defender Suite add-ons, the July 2026 pricing update, and three real-world scenarios (small business, mid-market, enterprise) for sizing the right purchase.

July 25, 2026 · 10 min · Dimosthenis Atteia
A guided walkthrough of the Microsoft Defender portal navigation at security.microsoft.com

Microsoft Defender Part 5: A Walk Through the Microsoft Defender Portal

Part 5 closes the series. A guided walk through the unified Microsoft Defender portal, every major navigation section explained, where Microsoft Secure Score now lives inside Exposure Management, how to set up the right roles, a simple KQL hunting query to try, and a 60-minute first-time agenda.

July 27, 2026 · 10 min · Dimosthenis Atteia
Διάγραμμα αρχιτεκτονικής Microsoft Entra ID με σύνδεση προς Microsoft Defender, geo-distributed datacenters και ροή αυθεντικοποίησης

Microsoft Entra Architecture: Πώς Στήνεται Πραγματικά η Ταυτότητά σου στο Cloud (και γιατί ο Defender σε νοιάζει)

Κατανόησε την αρχιτεκτονική του Microsoft Entra ID (partitions, replicas, availability, consistency) και δες γιατί η σωστή γνώση της είναι το θεμέλιο για να χρησιμοποιήσεις σωστά το Microsoft Defender στην καθημερινή σου δουλειά.

July 18, 2026 · 8 min · 1534 words · Dimosthenis Atteia
Microsoft is killing SMS authentication - Passkeys are taking over

Τέλος στα SMS/Voice MFA: Η Microsoft κάνει τα Passkeys default στο Entra ID

Η Microsoft κάνει τα passkeys προεπιλεγμένη μέθοδο σύνδεσης στο Microsoft Entra ID από 01/9/2026, ενώ η SMS/Voice αυθεντικοποίηση που παρέχει η ίδια αποσύρεται πλήρως από 01/2/2027, χωρίς δυνατότητα opt-out. Δες το πλήρες χρονοδιάγραμμα, τι σημαίνει για tenants με ρυθμιστικές απαιτήσεις SMS, και ένα πρακτικό πλάνο δράσης για administrators και security teams.

July 16, 2026 · 5 min · Dimosthenis Atteia
Η οικογένεια Microsoft Defender: MDE, MDO, MDI, MDA, MDC και Defender XDR

Η Οικογένεια Προϊόντων του Microsoft Defender με πρακτικό Οδηγό για νέους επαγγελματίες ασφάλειας & ΥΑΣΠΕ

Ένας πρακτικός χάρτης της οικογένειας Microsoft Defender για νέους επαγγελματίες ασφάλειας: Endpoint, Office 365, Identity, Cloud Apps, Cloud και το ενοποιημένο Defender XDR που τα συνδέει όλα σε ένα incident.

July 13, 2026 · 10 min · Dimosthenis Atteia

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